When defining indicators on the environment,the use of existing initiatives should be a priority rather than redefining indicators each time.From an Information,Communication and Technology perspective,data interopera...When defining indicators on the environment,the use of existing initiatives should be a priority rather than redefining indicators each time.From an Information,Communication and Technology perspective,data interoperability and standardization are critical to improve data access and exchange as promoted by the Group on Earth Observations.GEOEssential is following an end-user driven approach by defining Essential Variables(EVs),as an intermediate value between environmental policy indicators and their appropriate data sources.From international to local scales,environmental policies and indicators are increasingly percolating down from the global to the local agendas.The scientific business processes for the generation of EVs and related indicators can be formalized in workflows specifying the necessary logical steps.To this aim,GEOEssential is developing a Virtual Laboratory the main objective of which is to instantiate conceptual workflows,which are stored in a dedicated knowledge base,generating executable workflows.To interpret and present the relevant outputs/results carried out by the different thematic workflows considered in GEOEssential(i.e.biodiversity,ecosystems,extractives,night light,and food-water-energy nexus),a Dashboard is built as a visual front-end.This is a valuable instrument to track progresses towards environmental policies.展开更多
Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories,especially when enriched with data describing cultural,societal,and ecological aspects,conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole.St...Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories,especially when enriched with data describing cultural,societal,and ecological aspects,conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole.Story maps are interactive online digital narratives that can describe a territory beyond its map by enriching the map with text,pictures,videos,and other multimedia information.This paper presents a semi-automatic workflow to produce story maps from textual documents containing territory data.An expertfirst assembles one territory-contextual document containing text and images.Then,automatic processes use natural language processing and Wikidata services to(i)extract key concepts(entities)and geospatial coordinates associated with the territory,(ii)assemble a logically-ordered sequence of enriched story-map events,and(iii)openly publish online story maps and an interoperable Linked Open Data semantic knowledge base for event exploration and inter-story correlation analyses.Our workflow uses an Open Science-oriented methodology to publish all processes and data.Through our workflow,we produced story maps for the value chains and territories of 23 rural European areas of 16 countries.Through numerical evaluation,we demonstrated that territory experts considered the story maps effective in describing their territories,and appropriate for communicating with citizens and stakeholders.展开更多
基金This work was supported by European Commission[grant number H2020 ERA-PLANET project No.689443].
文摘When defining indicators on the environment,the use of existing initiatives should be a priority rather than redefining indicators each time.From an Information,Communication and Technology perspective,data interoperability and standardization are critical to improve data access and exchange as promoted by the Group on Earth Observations.GEOEssential is following an end-user driven approach by defining Essential Variables(EVs),as an intermediate value between environmental policy indicators and their appropriate data sources.From international to local scales,environmental policies and indicators are increasingly percolating down from the global to the local agendas.The scientific business processes for the generation of EVs and related indicators can be formalized in workflows specifying the necessary logical steps.To this aim,GEOEssential is developing a Virtual Laboratory the main objective of which is to instantiate conceptual workflows,which are stored in a dedicated knowledge base,generating executable workflows.To interpret and present the relevant outputs/results carried out by the different thematic workflows considered in GEOEssential(i.e.biodiversity,ecosystems,extractives,night light,and food-water-energy nexus),a Dashboard is built as a visual front-end.This is a valuable instrument to track progresses towards environmental policies.
基金funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the MOVING project(grant agreement no 862739).
文摘Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories,especially when enriched with data describing cultural,societal,and ecological aspects,conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole.Story maps are interactive online digital narratives that can describe a territory beyond its map by enriching the map with text,pictures,videos,and other multimedia information.This paper presents a semi-automatic workflow to produce story maps from textual documents containing territory data.An expertfirst assembles one territory-contextual document containing text and images.Then,automatic processes use natural language processing and Wikidata services to(i)extract key concepts(entities)and geospatial coordinates associated with the territory,(ii)assemble a logically-ordered sequence of enriched story-map events,and(iii)openly publish online story maps and an interoperable Linked Open Data semantic knowledge base for event exploration and inter-story correlation analyses.Our workflow uses an Open Science-oriented methodology to publish all processes and data.Through our workflow,we produced story maps for the value chains and territories of 23 rural European areas of 16 countries.Through numerical evaluation,we demonstrated that territory experts considered the story maps effective in describing their territories,and appropriate for communicating with citizens and stakeholders.
