Biography
James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a principal investigator in UCSB's Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS). His research is centered on applications of computing technology to environmental science, particularly involving digital geolibraries and Earth science workflow management.
Dr. Frew received his Ph.D. in Geography from UCSB in 1990. As part of his doctoral research, he developed the Image Processing Workbench, an open-source set of software tools for remote sensing image processing, currently used for instruction and research at UCSB and elsewhere. He has served as both the Manager and the Acting Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory (ICESS' predecessor), and as the Associate Director of the Sequoia 2000 Project, a 3-year $14M multi-campus consortium formed to investigate large-scale data management aspects of global change problems. He was a co-PI on the Alexandria Project (part of NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative), where he directed the development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) testbed system. Dr. Frew also served on the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science Data Utilization (CESDU).
Dr. Frew currently leads the Earth System Science Server project (part of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners), and serves on several NASA advisory committees. During the 2005-2006 academic year he will be spending a sabbatical at the University of Edinburgh's Digital Curation Centre.
Awards/Honors
- Group Achievement Award, NASA Climate and Land Data System Operations and Development Team, 1992
Selected Publications
- A Hybrid Declarative/Procedural Metadata Mapping Language Based on Python, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3652, 2005, 302 - 313, Janee, G., Frew, J., web link
- Lineage Retrieval for Scientific Data Processing: A Survey, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 37, no. 1, 2005, 1-28, Bose, R. and Frew, J., web link
- Accessing the Alexandria Digital Library from Geographic Information Systems, Fourth ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004, Ancona, D., Frew, J., Janee, G., and Valentine, D., web link
- Composing Lineage Metadata with XML for Custom Satellite-Derived Data Products, Sixteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2004, 21-23, Bose, R., and Frew, J., web link
- Content access characterization in digital libraries, Third ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2003, Janee, G., Frew, J., and Valentine, D., web link
- Structured models of scientific concepts for organizing, accessing, and using learning materials, Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002, Smith, T., Zeng, M.L., Agapova, O., Buchel, O., Freeston, M., Frew, J., Hill, L., Smart, L., Tierney, T. and Ushakov, A., web link
- The ADEPT digital library architecture, Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002, 342-350, Janee, G. and Frew, J., web link
- Earth System Science Workbench: A Data Management Infrastructure for Earth Science Products, L. Kerschberg and M. Kafatos (Editors), SSDBM 2001 Thirteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2001, 180-189, Frew, J. and Bose, R., web link
- The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype System, JCDL 2001: First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2001, 118-119, Smith, T., Janee, G., Frew, J. and Coleman, A., web link
- Alexandria Digital Library: User evaluation studies and system design, Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), 51(3), 2000, 246-259, Hill, L., Carver, L., Larsgaard, M., Dolin, R., Smith, T., Frew, J. and Rae, M.A., web link
- The Alexandria Digital Library architecture, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(4), 2000, 259-268, Frew, J., Freeston, M., Freitas, N., Hill, L., Janee, G., Lovette, K., Nideffer, R., Smith, T. and Zheng, Q., web link
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