Climate data is a valuable resource for understanding past weather patterns, assessing long-term climate trends, and conducting climate-related research. However, most existing knowledge graphs for climate data rely heavily on the standardized (per W3C recommendations) SOSA/SSN ontology, which can help improve general data accessibility, but typically overlooks the analytical applications of multisource climate data. To further enhance the accessibility of heterogeneous data for climate data analytics, this paper extends the CA ontology and implements a virtual knowledge graph for analytical applications. We emphasize the importance of incorporating observation metadata and geospatial representation into analytical applications. Through our study, we demonstrate the applicability of the proposed ontological model in deriving the ETCCDI indices. An example of the formation of the annual maximum daily temperature is given. Furthermore, we showcase the potential of LinkedGeoData in providing a more comprehensive geographical context for accessing climate data within the knowledge graph, leveraging the proposed ontological modeling and linked data principles.

Reducing industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become imperative for mitigating the adverse effects of climate change. Accurate measurement and monitoring of industrial smoke plumes, which are a significant source of GHG emissions, are crucial for effective emission control strategies. This paper addresses the prospect of utilizing satellite images to measure industrial smoke plumes and explores the effectiveness of various computer vision (CV) technologies in this context. The study focuses on examining both modern deep learning and traditional machine learning models for detecting and segmenting industrial smoke plumes in satellite images. While deep learning models have shown remarkable performance in various CV tasks, their ability to accurately segment smoke plumes in satellite images remains limited, with an average intersection over union (IOU) of no more than 60%. However, certain deep learning models, such as U-Net and AttU-Net, exhibit promising capabilities in identifying challenging types of noise, including clouds, white building surfaces, and snow, which traditional machine learning models struggle with. Employing deep learning models for industrial smoke plume detection proves advantageous, as all models achieve an approximate detection accuracy and F1-Score of 90%. The findings from this research serve as a valuable foundation for further advancements in developing advanced deep learning models specifically tailored to handle the identified types of noise.

Today's atmospheric data is generated swiftly as a result of the growth of IoT and sensor technologies and is available via data suppliers' RESTful APIs. However, sensor data mostly consists of live data streams including sensor observations, which are produced in a dispersed manner by several heterogeneous infrastructures, with little or no interoperability. RDF streams incorporating semantic data interoperability have arisen in last years and can be the foundation of intelligent semantic applications (e.g. semantic complex event processing). To enable semantic analysis of live atmospheric data streams, this article proposes a methodology for converting live data streams into Linked Data. The process leverages the most recent technologies for RML semantic mapping, ontology modeling, and Linked Data to extend the semantic usefulness of live atmospheric data, for example, by allowing for easy integration of atmospheric data streams with other live RDF streams.

With the active development of ICT and Internet technologies in climate research, individuals often need to gather different and disparate datasets and preprocess them in preparation for downstream data analysis in order to have a more full understanding of the challenges. This preparatory procedure is often lengthy due to the primary issue that data providers can-not ensure a homogeneous data format for data integration purposes. To overcome this problem, this study proposes enhancing existing relational climate data by layering a virtual knowledge graph on top of the original databases provided by various data vendors. The primary benefit of doing this is that data consumers are able to simply integrate climate data with other data sources using Linked Data principles, and climate data producers do not have to modify their data to conform to standard knowledge graph protocols.

The latest analytical models are becoming frequently used in meteorological science research. For instance, machine learning and deep learning models are being trained for weather forecasting. A solid machine learning model can give trustworthy findings that aid individuals in making weather-related decisions. However, the performance of analytical models is largely determined not only by the design of the model body but also by the input features. We address common issues of modern meteorological studies that take sensor data as the input for various analytical models. In contrast to the traditional practice of combining and preprocessing many fixed sensor data bulks to create an augmented dataset, we tunnel into remote knowledge graphs to fetch and augment the sensor data in a scalable way. As a consequence, we reduce the amount of time and storage space to preprocess diverse data in preparation for analytical models leveraging the high interoperability between knowledge graphs.

During the last three decades, the Web has been growing considerably in terms of number of available resources, traffic, types of media, usages, etc. In parallel, with 30+ editions, the WebConf series (ex. WWW, soon-to-be ACM WebConf) has witnessed how academia has been dealing with the Web as an object of research. In this study, we focus on the small story within the great one of the Web. In particular, by analysing the WebConf’s accepted papers and yearly events, we review how the conference has evolved across these decades and “driven” the evolution of the Web.

Abstract A very large number of historical manuscript collections are available in image formats and require extensive manual processing in order to search through them. So, we propose and build a search engine for automatically storing, indexing and efficiently searching the manuscript images. Firstly, a handwritten text recognition technique is used to convert the images into textual representations. In the next steps, we apply the named entity recognition and historical knowledge graph to build a semantic search model, which can understand the user’s intent in the query and the contextual meaning of concepts in documents, to return correctly the transcriptions and their corresponding images for users.

Recently ontologies have been exploited in a wide range of research areas for data modeling and data management. They greatly assists in defining the semantic model of the underlying data combined with domain knowledge. In this paper, we propose the Climate Analysis (CA) Ontology to model climate datasets used by remote sensing analysts. We use the data published by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to further explore how ontology modeling can be used to facilitate the field of climatic data processing. The idea of this work is to convert relational climate data to the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model, so that it can be stored in a graph database and easily accessed through the Web as Linked Data. Typically, this provides climate researchers, who are interested in datasets such as NOAA, with the potential of enriching and interlinking with other databases. As a result, our approach facilitates data integration and analysis of diverse climatic data sources and allows researchers to interrogate these sources directly on the Web using the standard SPARQL query language.

Unification and automation of RESTful web services' documentation and descriptions is currently receiving increasing attention. The open-source OpenAPI Specification (formerly known as Swagger) has become core of this effort and has been adopted by a number of major companies. It allows the description of RESTful web services using objects represented in JSON or YAML file formats. As a result, the created descriptions are human and machine-readable, but not machine-understandable. In this paper, we propose a nonintrusive approach for the addition of semantic annotations (similar to RDFa and JSON-LD for HTML) to specific fields of the OpenAPI Specification. We created a lightweight vocabulary for describing RESTful web services using this specification. Furthermore, we practically demonstrate how OpenAPI objects can be enriched with semantic descriptions in a minimally invasive way by adding URIs in the values of chosen OpenAPI properties.

With the increasing permeation of data into all dimensions of our information society, data is progressively becoming the basis for many products and services. It is hence becoming more and more vital to identify the means and methods how to exploit the value of this data. In this paper we provide our definition of the Data Value Network, where we specifically cater for non-tangible data products. We also propose a Demand and Supply Distribution Model with the aim of providing insight on how an entity can participate in the global data market by producing a data product, as well as a concrete implementation through the Demand and Supply as a Service. Through our contributions we project our vision of generating a new Economic Data Ecosystem that has the Web of Data as its core.

Extracting and representing user interests on the Social Web is becoming an essential part of the Web for personalisation and recommendations. Such personalisation is required in order to provide an adaptive Web to users, where content fits their preferences, background and current interests, making the Web more social and relevant. Current techniques analyse user activities on social media systems and collect structured or unstructured sets of entities representing users' interests. These sets of entities, or user profiles of interest, are often missing the semantics of the entities in terms of: (i) popularity and temporal dynamics of the interests on the Social Web and (ii) abstractness of the entities in the real world. State of the art techniques to compute these values are using specific knowledge bases or taxonomies and need to analyse the dynamics of the entities over a period of time. Hence, we propose a real-time, computationally inexpensive, domain independent model for concepts of interest composed of: popularity, temporal dynamics and specificity. We describe and evaluate a novel algorithm for computing specificity leveraging the semantics of Linked Data and evaluate the impact of our model on user profiles of interests.