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Modeling and Representing National Climate Assessment Information using Linked Data

USE CASE SCENARIO.

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Modeling and Representing National Climate Assessment Information using Linked Data

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  1. USE CASE SCENARIO PROVENANCE USE CASE: The reader of the NCA report wishes to identify the dataset used to generate a particular figure in the report. S/he is directed first to the figure caption. Selecting the caption displays a page of information about the figure, and, if the figure was originally published in another paper, including a link via the paper’s DOI to the publisher’s site describing that paper and offering it for download. The page of information also includes references to the datasets used in the paper on which the figure was based. Following each of the dataset links presents a page of information about the dataset, including links back to the agency/data center web page which provides more detail on the dataset (metadata) and from which the actual data may be available for order or download. Modeling and Representing National Climate Assessment Information using Linked Data Jin Guang Zheng1 (zhengj3@rpi.edu), Curt Tilmes2 (ctilmes@usgcrp.gov), Aaron Smith2 (asmith@usgcrp.gov),Stephan Zednik1 (zednis@rpi.edu), Xiaogang Ma1 (max7@rpi.edu)Peter Fox1 (foxp@rpi.edu) (1Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, 2United States Global Change Research Program, Washington DC) Figure 1: An illustration of the provenance use case using the National Climate Assessment 2009 Report, Chapter Southeast. ABSTRACT THE LINKED DATA OF AN NCA REPORT Every four years, Earth scientists work together on a National Climate Assessment (NCA) report which integrates, evaluates, and interprets the findings of climate change and impacts on affected industries such as agriculture, natural environment, energy production and use, etc. Given the amount of information presented in each report, and the wide range of information sources and topics, it can be difficult for users to find and identify desired information. To ease the user effort of information discovery, well-structured metadata is needed that describes the report's key statements and conclusions and provide for traceable provenance of data sources used. We present an assessment ontology developed to describe terms, concepts and relations required for the NCA metadata. Wherever possible, the assessment ontology reuses terms from well-known ontologies such as Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) ontology, Dublin Core (DC) vocabulary. We have generated sample National Climate Assessment metadata conforming to our assessment ontology and publicly exposed via a SPARQL-endpoint and website. We have also modeled provenance information for the NCA writing activities using the W3C recommendation-candidate PROV-O ontology. Using this provenance the user will be able to trace the sources of information used in the assessment and therefore make trust decisions. In the future, we are planning to implement a faceted browser over the metadata to enhance metadata traversal and information discovery. • Structured data access for the NCA Report are designed according to the principles of Linked Data1. • The structured data are stored in a triple store, a database for Semantic Web data, and can be accessed via Sparql Endpoint. • Data entities are linked to Dbpedia2 resources, which provides more descriptions for the data entity. • Users can easily navigate and browse the data via the Linked Data API interface. • Data are available in multiple formats including RDF and developer-friendly JSON format Figure 2: Presenting Linked Data use LinkedData API ONTOLOGIES FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION Figure 5: S2S Faceted Browse System, an option for faceted browsing of the NCA report • The NCA Report contains wide range of information sources and topics, it can be difficult for users to find and identify desired information. • Faceted Browse System provides a way for user to better browse and navigate the structured data. • The planned Faceted Browse System will be built to browse the structured data included in the NCA report. Sponsors: National Science Foundation Figure 4: Example of Provenance Modeling of NCA Report Figure 3: Subset of GCIS Ontology for NCA Report • The GCIS Ontology defines a set of concepts and relations to model and represent the information of the NCA Report, including the information discussed in the Use Case Scenario. • The Ontology reuses many concepts and relations across different ontologies, including FOAF3, Dublin Core4, and SKOS5. • The Ontology is encoded using the Web Ontology Language. • We modeled provenance information for the NCA writing activities using the W3C recommendation-candidate PROV-O ontology. • Using this provenance the user will be able to trace the sources of information used in the assessment and therefore make trust decisions. Poster: MT15A-08 REFERENCE: 1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData 2. http://www.dbpedia.org/ 3. http://www.foaf-project.org/ 4. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ 5. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/

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