An Interoperable Open Data Portal for Climate Analysis

TL;DR

This paper introduces an open, interoperable climate data portal utilizing a knowledge graph for Ireland and England, enabling semantic access and applications for climate research.

Contribution

It presents a novel climate knowledge graph, an ontology schema, a SPARQL server, and a dereferencing engine for semantic climate data access.

Findings

Facilitates semantic climate data sharing and analysis

Enables diverse semantic applications for climate research

Provides a scalable infrastructure for climate knowledge integration

Abstract

This work proposes an open interoperable data portal that offers access to a Web-wide climate domain knowledge graph created for Ireland and England's NOAA climate daily data. There are three main components contributing to this data portal: the first is the upper layer schema of the knowledge graph -- the climate analysis (CA) ontology -- the second is an ad hoc SPARQL server by which to store the graph data and provide public Web access, the last is a dereferencing engine deployed to resolve URIs for entity information. Our knowledge graph form of NOAA climate data facilitates the supply of semantic climate information to researchers and offers a variety of semantic applications that can be built on top of it.