Using Open Data Thesauri to connect Climate Platforms

SEMANTiCS 2015, Vienna

CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE:THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION

1992

76,000Articles related to

“climate

change” on

Google Scholar

2014

1.7mArticles

300+Think tanks

working on

climate change

(ICGG)

CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE:OCEANS OF INFORMATIONCLIMATE KNOWLEDGE:OCEANS OF INFORMATION

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Finding the right

information is

often difficult

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Lots of data and

information silos

CONNECTING CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE

100s OF KNOWLEDGE BROKERS

CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE BROKERS:FOUR CHALLENGES

Understanding

user

needs

Signposting

the right

platforms

Connecting

climate

websites

Learning

from each

other

Based on our experience we know:

Climate knowledge brokers worldwide use different

terminology in different languages to describe the same things � connection and understanding is

lost

Need to increase consistency and connections to see the full picture

The answer is standardized tagging

CONSISTENCY IN TERMINOLOGY IS KEY

REEEP’s climate smart thesaurus:

• is available in 5 languages (en, fr, es, pt, de)

• describes more than 4.000 terms

• covers renewable energy, energy efficiency, REDD, green

growth and climate compatible development

• based on „PoolParty“ by Semantic Web Company

• and offers:

• Definition and synonyms for each term

• Links to related, broader and narrower terms

• Links to and information from other sources like

Wikipedia, Climate-tech wiki, …. using LOD

• All information free for re-use in Linked Open Data

formats

The open data climate thesaurus

The thesaurus can be used for:

• Explaining terms (glossary)

• Showing relations between terms

• Supporting auto-complete features

in search boxes

• Provide definitions for extracted

terms of wordpress blog-articles

(plugin available)

• Support tagging & categorizing

Use-cases for the thesaurus

STEP 1:

Climate

Tagger is

installed on

knowledge

platforms

STEP 2:

Climate Tagger scans

unstructured information and

identifies relevant terms and

concepts …… and “tags”

content based

on the expansive

Climate Tagger

Thesaurus

Added functionality via the enhanced Climate Tagger API

Geo-Tagging

Connecting

content to

geographic

locations

Enriching Content

Automatically adding

related information

(such as definitions) to

content

Content Pool

Connecting data and information related

documents from other Climate Tagger users.

Live Demonstration

http://www.climatetagger.net

Possibilities to join us to connect climate data, information & knowledge

Join the CKB Community of Practice

http://climateknowledgebrokers.net/join

Use tools such as the Climate Tagger to

connect climate data and information

http://www.climatetagger.net

Make use of the LOD Climate Thesaurus:

http://data.reegle.info/thesaurus/guide

The knowledge café:

We would like to discuss the following topics with you in the

next 30 minutes:

• Barriers and challenges (operational, financial and

technical) to standardize “tagging” terminology and link

related content

• Thesaurus development + quality assurance

• In-depth discussion on climate tagger