Semantic Web, Searching for data using ontologies, Querying semantically heterogeneous data, Conceptual modeling, Database Management Systems
GIScience (Geographic Information Science), Geospatial data, Geospatial Semantics
Research Projects
National Science Foundation, Office of Cyberinfrastructure INTEROP Program, 2010-2013 Title: INTEROP Spatial Ontology Community of Practice: an Interdisciplinary Network to Support Geospatial Data Sharing, Integration, and Interoperability, project homepage
National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics (SEIII), 2005-2008 Title: Information Integration for Locating and Querying Geospatial Data,
project homepage
National Science Foundation, Digital Government, 2001-2004 Title: Integrating Metadata Development, XML, and DBMS
Search and Query Techniques in a State of Wisconsin Land Information System,
National Science Foundation, Research Planning Grant IRI
-9711846, 1997-1999 Title: Advanced OODBMS Conceptual Modeling for GIS
and Other Applications
