FORCE11 Semantic Climate Working Group
Open Tools for Knowledge Extraction from Scholarly Publications
FORCE11 Working Group (WG) or Task Group (TG) operating under the umbrella of FORCE11, an international community focused on improving how research is created, shared, discovered, cited, and reused in the digital age. FORCE11 stands for Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship.
What is FORCE11?
FORCE11 brings together researchers, librarians, publishers, software developers, data scientists, and research funders to develop better practices for scholarly communication and open science. Its mission is to improve research practices through innovations in knowledge creation and sharing.
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What is a FORCE11 Working Group (WG)?
A FORCE11 Working Group is a community-driven team that focuses on a specific challenge in scholarly communication and produces practical outputs such as:
- Principles and guidelines
- Standards and best practices
- Open-source tools and software
- Training materials
- White papers and reports
The FORCE11 Semantic Climate Working Group is an international open-science initiative dedicated to transforming climate knowledge into structured, reusable, and machine-readable resources. By combining semantic technologies, artificial intelligence, open scholarship, and community participation, the project aims to make climate information more accessible for researchers, educators, policymakers, and citizens.
The project is developed under the principles of Open Notebook Science, transparency, reproducibility, and knowledge equity. Our work focuses on converting climate-related documents, reports, and scholarly publications into semantic resources that can be searched, linked, analyzed, and reused.
Why This Project?
Climate knowledge is often scattered across thousands of publications, reports, and datasets. Much of this information remains locked in PDFs and unstructured documents, limiting discoverability and reuse.
The FORCE11 Semantic Climate Working Group addresses these challenges by:
- Making climate knowledge machine-readable
- Supporting AI-assisted literature review
- Building semantic dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Creating climate knowledge graphs
- Promoting open science and knowledge equity
Deliverables of the project
- Extraction of a structured climate ontology as a knowledge graph.
- Interrogation of 15,000 pages of the IPCC AR6 reports (and hopefully emerging releases of AR7) , the current Open scientific literature.
- Enrichment with trusted knowledge (IPCC, publications, Wikipedia)
- Development of scholarly tech – semanticCorpus (2026) holds a searchable collection of articles and links with metadata management.
- Development of encyclopedia/knowledge_graph -a generally accessible technology which can give non-experts answers within an hour
Open Source Semantic Tools
The project actively uses and contributes to:
pygetpapersdocanalysisamilibsemantic encyclopedias- knowledge graph workflows
These tools support the automated retrieval, annotation, and analysis of climate literature.
Resources
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