The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,499,999 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Pittsburgh. This Phase II grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, will strengthen the open-source Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) platform used globally for open data, open government, and open science initiatives, including the U.S. government's Data.gov portal. The funding supports efforts to enhance community...
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...
The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070, "Computer and Information Science and Engineering") to conduct collaborative research on "DASS: Accountable Open Source Infrastructure." The goal of this 3-year project is to investigate the extent to which maintainers of open-source software are accountable to different user groups, and how this...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Chicago. The grant will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem around the Gen3 data platform, which enables researchers to manage, analyze, and share large scientific datasets. The project aims to expand the reach of Gen3 to smaller research organizations, making it easier to set up, maintain, and contribute to the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,854 project grant to The Johns Hopkins University under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to support the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Open Source Ecosystem development project from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The project aims to mature open source governance and further develop the software ecosystem of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics community. Specific...
This Project Grant award of $219,376 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an open-source software ecosystem centered around the GeoTILED software. The project aims to create robust, accessible tools for computing high-resolution terrain parameters, which are critical data used in earth science applications such as agriculture, wildfire management, and hydrology. Key activities include identifying...
This $673,131 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will develop a real-time, high-resolution monitoring framework to identify and manage urban environmental hazards in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project aims to leverage existing fiber-optic cable infrastructure to monitor water infrastructure and geological conditions, addressing challenges related to aging infrastructure, climate change, and equitable access to city services. Key...
The University of Pittsburgh received a three-year, $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund the acquisition of new GPU and MPI nodes to enhance the Interdisciplinary Pitt Center for Research Computing. The Center supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. The new...
This $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a hybrid, scalable data management system to improve access to scientific knowledge in data science. The project aims to create an intelligent, user-friendly interface that can extract, organize, and provide deep access to relevant concepts from peer-reviewed scientific literature. Key objectives include: Building a comprehensive knowledge...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,635 Project Grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) for a project titled "POSE: PHASE I: SCOPING AND PLANNING FOR AN OPEN-SOURCE ECOSYSTEM OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS THAT SELECT TEXTS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES". This grant supports scoping and planning activities to transition an academic research artifact - machine learning software that identifies...