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author Zhu, Rui
Shimizu, Cogan
Stephen, Shirly
Fisher, Colby K.
Thelen, Thomas
Currier, Kitty
Janowicz, Krzysztof
Hitzler, Pascal
Schildhauer, Mark
Li, Wenwen
Rehberger, Dean
Barua, Adrita
Christou, Antrea
Cai, Ling
Dalal, Abhilekha
D'Onofrio, Anthony
Eells, Andrew
Faulk, Mitchell
Liu, Zilong
Mai, Gengchen
Mahdavinejad, Mohammad Saeid
Mecum, Bryce
Norouzi, Sanaz Saki
Shi, Meilin
Tian, Yuanyuan
Wang, Sizhe
Wang, Zhangyu
Zalewski, Joseph
author_facet Zhu, Rui
Shimizu, Cogan
Stephen, Shirly
Fisher, Colby K.
Thelen, Thomas
Currier, Kitty
Janowicz, Krzysztof
Hitzler, Pascal
Schildhauer, Mark
Li, Wenwen
Rehberger, Dean
Barua, Adrita
Christou, Antrea
Cai, Ling
Dalal, Abhilekha
D'Onofrio, Anthony
Eells, Andrew
Faulk, Mitchell
Liu, Zilong
Mai, Gengchen
Mahdavinejad, Mohammad Saeid
Mecum, Bryce
Norouzi, Sanaz Saki
Shi, Meilin
Tian, Yuanyuan
Wang, Sizhe
Wang, Zhangyu
Zalewski, Joseph
contents Global challenges such as food supply chain disruptions, public health crises, and natural hazard responses require access to and integration of diverse datasets, many of which are geospatial. Over the past few years, a growing number of (geo)portals have been developed to address this need. However, most existing (geo)portals are stacked by separated or sparsely connected data "silos" impeding effective data consolidation. A new way of sharing and reusing geospatial data is therefore urgently needed. In this work, we introduce KnowWhereGraph, a knowledge graph-based data integration, enrichment, and synthesis framework that not only includes schemas and data related to human and environmental systems but also provides a suite of supporting tools for accessing this information. The KnowWhereGraph aims to address the challenge of data integration by building a large-scale, cross-domain, pre-integrated, FAIR-principles-based, and AI-ready data warehouse rooted in knowledge graphs. We highlight the design principles of KnowWhereGraph, emphasizing the roles of space, place, and time in bridging various data "silos". Additionally, we demonstrate multiple use cases where the proposed geospatial knowledge graph and its associated tools empower decision-makers to uncover insights that are often hidden within complex and poorly interoperable datasets.
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spellingShingle The KnowWhereGraph: A Large-Scale Geo-Knowledge Graph for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Discovery and Geo-Enrichment
Zhu, Rui
Shimizu, Cogan
Stephen, Shirly
Fisher, Colby K.
Thelen, Thomas
Currier, Kitty
Janowicz, Krzysztof
Hitzler, Pascal
Schildhauer, Mark
Li, Wenwen
Rehberger, Dean
Barua, Adrita
Christou, Antrea
Cai, Ling
Dalal, Abhilekha
D'Onofrio, Anthony
Eells, Andrew
Faulk, Mitchell
Liu, Zilong
Mai, Gengchen
Mahdavinejad, Mohammad Saeid
Mecum, Bryce
Norouzi, Sanaz Saki
Shi, Meilin
Tian, Yuanyuan
Wang, Sizhe
Wang, Zhangyu
Zalewski, Joseph
Databases
Global challenges such as food supply chain disruptions, public health crises, and natural hazard responses require access to and integration of diverse datasets, many of which are geospatial. Over the past few years, a growing number of (geo)portals have been developed to address this need. However, most existing (geo)portals are stacked by separated or sparsely connected data "silos" impeding effective data consolidation. A new way of sharing and reusing geospatial data is therefore urgently needed. In this work, we introduce KnowWhereGraph, a knowledge graph-based data integration, enrichment, and synthesis framework that not only includes schemas and data related to human and environmental systems but also provides a suite of supporting tools for accessing this information. The KnowWhereGraph aims to address the challenge of data integration by building a large-scale, cross-domain, pre-integrated, FAIR-principles-based, and AI-ready data warehouse rooted in knowledge graphs. We highlight the design principles of KnowWhereGraph, emphasizing the roles of space, place, and time in bridging various data "silos". Additionally, we demonstrate multiple use cases where the proposed geospatial knowledge graph and its associated tools empower decision-makers to uncover insights that are often hidden within complex and poorly interoperable datasets.
title The KnowWhereGraph: A Large-Scale Geo-Knowledge Graph for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Discovery and Geo-Enrichment
topic Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13874