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This $275,008 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to create an AI-powered framework that helps designers automatically evaluate the environmental impact of their designs and optimize them for sustainability. The key innovations include: Developing novel graph attention network (GAT) algorithms to extract lifecycle inventory (LCI) data by analyzing similarities with existing designs, addressing the issue of LCI data scarcity....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $270,834 Project Grant through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Alexandria Archive Institute, a non-profit technology company, for a 5-year project titled "OPEN CONTEXT: SUSTAINING A COLLABORATIVE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY". The project aims to sustain and enhance the Open Context platform, which has emerged as a globally recognized platform for reviewing, curating, and publishing...

This $274,192 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of an advanced generative AI toolbox for interactive Life Cycle Assessments (LCA). The primary aim is to create a domain-specific large language model that can process complex, multi-modal data to provide real-time insights into Scope 3 emissions, which are often the most significant part of a company's carbon...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of a plan to strengthen the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) open-source data management software to continue providing an effective platform for open data, open government, and open science initiatives. Specifically, the University of Pittsburgh will map the current CKAN...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $319,873 to Catalyst Cooperative will lay the groundwork for an open-source ecosystem that produces freely available, openly licensed, analysis-ready energy system data. The project aims to understand the range of potential users, their motivations, and barriers to contributing to or using open-source energy data. It will also improve existing software testing and data...

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Oregon State University aims to develop an integrated circuit hardware system and data collection/decision support metrics to establish a quantitative information ecosystem for electronic device reuse and recycling. The key activities under this 3-year project include: 1) Developing low-cost wireless tags to provide recyclers with easy-to-read...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, aims to create an AI-powered framework to help designers evaluate and optimize the environmental impact of their product designs. The $274,959 award to Florida International University will implement several key innovations: (1) Develop novel graph attention network algorithms to extract lifecycle inventory data for sustainability analysis by leveraging similarities with existing product...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $649,921 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program (CFDA 45.313) to support accessible data curation and inclusive data visualization. In partnership with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Posit Public Benefit Corporation, the Chart2Music open-source project team, the Data Curation Network, and the National Federation of the Blind,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to Carbon Solutions LLC under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant will support development of a decision-support tool to identify carbon dioxide capture opportunities across the United States energy sector from 2023-2024. The tool aims to facilitate the country's transition to net-zero carbon emissions through profiling capturable CO2 streams and providing the break-even capture cost,...

The University of Arizona, in partnership with Harvard University, received a $599,816 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program to develop a digital curation framework that aligns 3D data creation and curation methods following FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) data principles. The project team will travel to research sites to document 3D data creators' workflows through...