The Climate Tagger - a tagging and recommender service for climate information based on PoolParty...

Sukaina BharwaniStockholm Environment Institute

Oxford, UK

Martin KaltenböckCFO, Semantic Web Company

Vienna, Austria

The Climate Tagger Turning data into knowledge

Taxonomy Boot Camp London19 October 2016

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Finding the right

information is often difficult

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Lots of data and information silos

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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

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Lots of data and information silos

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TheClimate TaggerTurning data into knowledge

• 5 domain specific ThesauriOverall Climate Tagger (4000 concepts)Energy Efficiency (750 concepts)Renewable Energy (2089 concepts)Climate Change – Adaptation (116)Climate Change – Mitigation (473)

• Developed with more than 30 experts• In 5 languages: EN, DE, ES, PT, FR• Available as Linked Open Data (LOD)• Linked to existing other Thesauri

(e.g. GEMET, AgroVoc, GBPN, …)• Providing rich: definitions, synonyms, …

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Lots of data and information silos

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STEP 1:Climate Tagger is installed on knowledge platforms

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Lots of data and information silos

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STEP 2:Climate Tagger scans unstructured information and identifies relevant terms and concepts …

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Added functionality via the enhanced Climate Tagger API

Geo-TaggingConnecting content to geographic locations

Enriching ContentAutomatically adding related information (such as definitions) to content

Content PoolConnecting data and information related documents from other Climate Tagger users.

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TheClimate TaggerTurning data into knowledge

Feature Overview

• Comprehensive Demos & Documentation• API Key Management (organisations, users, roles, projects)• Rich API method set

• Extract (from text)• Extract from file• Content Pool Push (private | public)• Similar Documents• Recommended Documents

• API Request Builder to ensure easy API use (source, region, topic)• Statistics: activitiy, extractions, trendy concepts, recommendations,…• Climate Tagger Integrations out-of-the-box

• Drupal CMS• WordPress• CKAN

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TheClimate TaggerTurning data into knowledge

Users & Funders

Funders include: • Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) / DFID UK• Federal Government of Germany (BMU)• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)• Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) of UNEP

More than 60 organisations using the Thesaurus & Climate Tagger including: • NREL – OpenEI, SEI Oxford – weADAPT, IDS – ELDIS • CTCN, GGKP, REN21, C2E2• Energypedia, European Copper Institute (Leonardo Energy),

Practical Action• IRENA – International Renewable Energy Agency

Projects in development / negotiatons with: • WIPO Green, GIZ ,Clean Energy Solution Center, …

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HOW DOESTHIS WORK

Taking a look under the hood

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TECHNICAL CORE COMPONENTS

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Taxonomy & Ontology Server

Entity Extraction & Text Mining

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Semi-automatic tagging embedded in content workflows

Supervised Learning System

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Entity Extraction based on Knowledge Graphs

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How does it work:Architecture

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How does it work: out-of-the-box integrations

START NOW!https://www.drupal.org/project/climate_tagger

https://wordpress.org/plugins/climate-tagger/

http://extensions.ckan.org/extension/climate-tagger/

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IN

THE REAL WORLD?

weADAPT: a climate adaptation use case

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weADAPT: a global climate adaptation knowledge platform

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▸ Mass of information on climate adaptation and fragmentation of knowledge (e.g. lack of connections between work and networks).

▸ Lack of “actionable learning”. There is replication of work, redundancy and a lack of learning from the thousands of projects around the world.

▸ Very little systematic analysis of trends, commonalities and divergences.

▸ Need to create a better balance between the specificity of place based research and generalizable recommendations

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The problem

Learn

Share

Connect

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Relationships between weADAPT Editors,

Knowledge Managers and the users.

User generated high quality content.

Free, open access

weADAPT links and integrates knowledge in intelligent ways,

using semantic tagging

Objectives

▸ Understanding the decision-making environment▸ Exploring the use of climate science in decision-

making▸ Building capacity for climate science uptake▸ Monitoring, learning and reflection

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700+ geo-ref adaptation case studies

500+ organizations & 2500+ members

1000+ articles

20 themes & networksSemantic data and intelligent linkingQuality assurance

Commentary & learning forums

Articles

Case studies

Themes

Networks

Projects

Discussion forums

Comments

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Themes

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Case studies

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Articles

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Building capacity for uptake of climate information

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How do we address information overload using the Climate Tagger?

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Meta analysis of knowledge base

▸ Visualization of information to tell a story

▸ Better communication e.g. using infographics

▸ Further collaborations building on the different strengths of different platforms and adaptation champions

▸ Mapping themes and their contributors▸ Barrier/enablers to adaptation

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Going “beyond knowledge sharing”

- adding new value

Systematic analysis of tags, trends, commonalities and gaps

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Mapping “who is working on what”

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Mapping “who is working on what”

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Next steps:

Development of gaps in Climate Tagger

E.g. Creating harmonised language in the areas of disaster risk reduction, climate science and climate services.

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Q & A

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Sukaina BharwaniStockholm Environment Institute

Oxford, UK

Martin KaltenböckCFO, Semantic Web Company

Vienna,Austria

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