Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability

How can knowledge graphs be used for sustainability? In this talk, Ellie Young will give a quick intro to both sustainability and knowledge graphs–a database that encodes semantic meaning together with data–and show why knowledge graphs are ideal for representing the complex relationships amongst sustainability data. To illustrate these concepts, she’ll overview use cases spanning city, company and nonprofit sectors, including:

• Disaster Response
• Geographical data and experts with the KnowWhereGraph
• Mapping critical city assets and dependencies with CAMS
• Matching offers of help with need during disaster recovery with DisasterRecord
• Open-source geospatial datasets and hydrologic models for real-time flood alerts with the Urban Flood Open Knowledge Network
• ESG Reporting with an app for structured, expert-sourced data from Common Action
• Matching NGOs to donors with NLP keyword extraction and knowledge graphs for sustainable development, from Slalom
• Sustainability ontology for crowd-sourced aggregation of sustainable development and climate resilience data from Common Action

Ellie Young is Founder of Common Action. Common Action is an innovation network building collective intelligence tools to support knowledge representation for climate and SDG/ESG initiatives. Previously the Head of Community at the Knowledge Graph Conference, Ellie integrates tech with community to create systems for managing sustainability. Ellie co-chaired workshops on Earth and Space Data Knowledge Commons at the ESIP January 2022 meeting and “Modeling Sustainability” at KGC 2021. In 2022, she will participate in the Open Knowledge Network and GeoKG Workshops at KGC 2022, and co-organize the International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs: Open Knowledge Network at ACM KDD 2022.