The KnowWhereGraph ontology

Autor(en)
Cogan Shimizu, Shirly Stephen, Adrita Barua, Ling Cai, Antrea Christou, Kitty Currier, Abhilekha Dalal, Colby K. Fisher, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Wenwen Li, Zilong Liu, Mohammad Saeid Mahdavinejad, Gengchen Mai, Dean Rehberger, Mark Schildhauer, Meilin Shi, Sanaz Saki Norouzi, Yuanyuan Tian, Sizhe Wang, Zhangyu Wang, Joseph Zalewski, Lu Zhou, Rui Zhu
Abstrakt

KnowWhereGraph is one of the largest fully publicly available geospatial knowledge graphs. It includes data from 30 layers on natural hazards (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires), climate variables (e.g., air temperature, precipitation), soil properties, crop and land-cover types, demographics, and human health, various place and region identifiers, among other themes. These have been leveraged through the graph by a variety of applications to address challenges in food security and agricultural supply chains; sustainability related to soil conservation practices and farm labor; and delivery of emergency humanitarian aid following a disaster. In this paper, we introduce the ontology that acts as the schema for KnowWhereGraph. This broad overview provides insight into the requirements and design specifications for the graph and its schema, including the development methodology (modular ontology modeling) and the resources utilized to implement, materialize, and deploy KnowWhereGraph with its end-user interfaces and public query SPARQL endpoint.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Wright State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Kansas State University, Hydronos Labs, Arizona State University, University of Texas, Austin, Michigan State University, National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, University of Bristol
Journal
Journal of Web Semantics
Band
84
ISSN
1570-8268
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2024.100842
Publikationsdatum
01-2025
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
102001 Artificial Intelligence
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Software, Human-computer interaction, Computer Networks and Communications
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/32cd3022-ca92-4271-983f-906e543d3ad6