Nancy Wiegand Senior Scientist Space Science and Engineering Center University of Wisconsin - Madison 1225 W. Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Telephone: 608-261-1451 Email: wiegand at cs and then wisc.edu

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Research Interests

• Semantic Web, Searching for data over the Web using ontologies, Querying semantically heterogeneous data, Conceptual modeling, Database Management Systems
• GIScience (Geographic Information Science), Geospatial data, Geospatial Semantics

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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 (see NSF INTEROP grant link from socop.org)
• 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

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Bio
Publications
Promoting Interdisciplinary Work
Fun (September 2004)
Fun (September 2006)
Most Fun (September 2007)

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