Event Report | The Tech We Want Online Summit 2024

21 Oct, 2024 by Team

The Tech We Want Online Summit 2024 , organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) took place on 17-18 October, 2024.

The event has included panel discussion, keynote session on the first day (17 October) followed by Tech Demo session on 18 October. There were more than 50 participants across the world.

Here are the description about the #semanticClimate participation in the Tech We Want Summit.

Shweata Hegde has briefly described about the #semanticClimate tools during panel discussion.

[Panel 3] The Tech We Want is Sustainable for People and the Planet (17 October, 2024)

Christoph Becker – Professor, University of Toronto, author of 'Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability'
Maxwell Beganim – Director, Open Knowledge Ghana, and Co-lead of the Open Goes COP Coalition
Shweata Hegde – Developer at #semanticClimate and Young India Fellow at Ashoka University
Fieke Jansen – Co-principal Investigator, Critical Infrastructure Lab
Valmik Patel – Data Scientist, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Paz Peña – Independent consultant and activist, author of 'Technologies for a Burning Planet'
Lucas Pretti – Communications & Advocacy Director, Open Knowledge Foundation [moderator]

The Tech We Want Summit 2024 | Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Demo Session (18 October, 2024)

Demo was given by Parijat Bhadra – Intern and Team member, #semanticClimate

COLAB NOTEBOOK

DEMO: The Tech We Want Summit 2024

The tools were demonstrated via Colab notebook to show real-time code execution and results, highlighting their importance in making climate report semantic.

The colab notebook emphasizes:

creating scientific literature corpus from the query term and making JQuery Datatables
making wikimedia enhanced dictionary for the list of climate words.

The goal is to make such data accessible for everyone, overcoming the limitations of PDF formats for machine readability and data extraction.

Key points include:

Introduction of semanticClimate: A global citizen science movement using open notebook science to "FAIRify" climate data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
Tools showcased:
- pygetpapers: A tool to search for scientific articles on EPMC (European PubMed Central) and organize metadata into datatables.
- docanalysis: Extracts specific entities, such as countries mentioned in scientific literature.
- amilib: Creates Wikimedia-enhanced dictionaries from scientific terms, linked to Wikimedia pages.