Greetings!
From Science Commons, Jonathan Rees and I have been accepted as
mentors for Google’s Summer of Code, the deadline for which is
rapidly approaching.
Selected students can earn $4,500 for working on an open source
application for the summer
Our project suggestions (and those for all of Creative Commons) are
at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Summer_of_Code.
Semantic Web for Science
Science Commons is using semantic web technologies to promote data
accessibility and interoperability, so any project that makes the
semantic web work better, especially for life scientists, is of
interest. Examples:
implement computed properties for the Pellet OWL DL reasoner, with
formulas expressed in Javascript
implement a macro system for OWL
implement an RDF library for the Scheme programming language
implement DL-Lite, an OWL subset designed to efficiently map to
relational databases (see http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~quonto/articoli/
calv-etal-AAAI-2005.pdf )
develop a library of RDF exporters for important sources of
biological data
Build a tool for optimizing access to particular RDF graphs, e.g. by
synthesizing a relational schema inferred from the content of the
graph and sample queries
Adapt OpenNLP, GATE, or other open source natural language processing
system to mine the open literature for interesting biological
entities (cell lines, antibodies, ...) and relationships, rendering
the results as RDF or RDFa
Set up an open 'semantic wiki' for use by biologists: adapt an
existing wiki implementation to add mechanisms for entry and/or
deduction of entity identifications and relationships
Don't like any of our ideas? Suggest another one that helps further
our mission to accelerate the scientific research cycle!
The application form is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/
guide-to-the-gsoc-web-app-for-student-applicants
Drop us a note if you have any questions.
Regards,
Alan Ruttenberg
Jonathan Rees
http://sciencecommons.org
http://neurocommons.org
