semanticClimate at International Open Access Week 2025
Open Access Week 2025 (OAW 2025) brings together communities worldwide to advance open sharing of knowledge. The event will take place from October 20–26, 2025.
It includes global, community-led campaign to promote open access, open science, and equitable sharing of knowledge—through talks, workshops, policy dialogue, and collective action.
Theme for OAW 2025 is “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”
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Organized By:
New York Tech Libraries: The World of Open - International Open Access Week October 20-26th, 2025
Date
- October 20 - 26, 2025
Mode
- Online
Program Schedule Click Here to read
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| Virtual Sandbox, Semantic Encyclopedia | Monday, October 20, 2025 | 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM IST | Online | Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, Mr. Simon Worthington, Ms. Shaik Zainab |
| Corpus creation from open access repositories and their analysis with semantic tools | Friday, October 24, 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM IST | Online | Dr. Renu Kumari, Ms. Udita Agarwal, Ms. Shaik Zainab, Prof. Peter Murray-Rust |
| Introduction to the #semanticClimate by co-Founder Dr. Gitanjali Yadav | Friday, October 24, 2025 | 10:00 PM – 11:20 PM IST | Online | Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, Mr. Simon Worthington |
semanticClimate Participation
Monday October 20, 2025
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Introduction to the Semantic Encyclopedia
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Time: 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM IST | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
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Presentation by:
- Prof. Peter Murray-Rust
- Mr. Simon Worthington
- Ms. Shaik Zainab
Introduction of Semantic Encyclopedia | Ms. Shaik Zainab
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NYIT public website event information: Link
Program Schedule for Monday October 20, 2025
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Introduction by Vanessa Viola (host) - 5 mins
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Mechanics of this session (orientation)
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Livestream
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Chat
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Recording
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Encourage questions (interjections welcome)
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Who owns our knowledge
- Peter Murray-Rust (10 mins)
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List blogposts PMR
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Simon Worthington - 2 minutes
- How to make change? - Using guides to multiply know-how. E.g., CS4RL LIBER Citizen Science Guides
- In the context of a publishing regime that is incapable of change.
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Shaik Zainab (SZ) - Presents Semantic Encyclopedia - 20 mins Link to Slides
- Ingest of material
- Create keyphrase list
- Create encyclopedia
- Annotation - PMR
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Climate Knowledge Graph SW - 10 mins
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Paged Media CSS SW - 10 mins
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Resources
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semantic Encyclopedia
- Blogpost - semantic Encyclopedia What is an Encyclopedia? - (about, workflow)
- GitHub landing page - Link
- Demo publication - demo
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#sC Resources - Click Here
Introduction to the Semantic Encyclopedia
- Peter Murray-Rust, Simon Worthington, Shaik Zainab
Introduction to the Semantic Encyclopedia
Friday October 24, 2025
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Time: 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM IST | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM UTC
We are participating in the OAW 2025 by hosting talk and workshop on opening up climate knowledge and scholarly literatures.
Our sessions will explore how semantic tools can be used to make research more transparent, equitable, and impactful—ensuring that critical knowledge is available to all, not locked behind paywalls.
The title of the session is "Open Science and Citizen Science with #semanticClimate: Open-Software for Knowledge Liberation".
Session 1 (Workshop): Corpus creation from open access repositories and their analysis with semantic tools
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Introduction of the semantic tool by Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate
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Hands-on Demonstration by Ms. Udita Agarwal, Ph.D Student, BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR) and Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate and Ms. Shaik Zainab, Anurag University, Hyderabad.
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Time 8:30 - 9:45 AM EST | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM IST | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM UTC
This session includes hands-on demonstration of semantic tool pygetpapers to create corpus of the open access literatures in a structured and machine readable format for further analysis on the corpus.
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The applications of the semantic and structured corpus are the following:
- To train Natural Language Processing (NLP) models for:
- Named Entity Recognition (NER)
- Automated summarization
- Facilitate literature reviews:
- for identifying research gaps
- help in formulating hypotheses
This has also led to resolve the following challenges associated with exponential growth of publications.
- Bulk download of the data in less time
- Machine readable format
- Single platform to access the data
- Automated article retrieval from open access repositories
- Updated record of literatures
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Introduction to the corpus creation from open access repository
Introduction of the semantic tools | Dr. Renu Kumari
Demonstration of the tool to create corpus from open access repository and their analysis using semantic tools
Demonstration of the semantic tools | Ms. Udita Agarwal
Session 2 (Talk): Who Owns Our Knowledge? An Introduction to the #semanticClimate
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By Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Co-founder #semanticClimate and Scientist at BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR), New Delhi, India
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Time 12:30 - 1:50 PM EST | 10:00 PM – 11:20 PM IST | 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM UTC
This session will explore the critical question of ownership in research and knowledge sharing and how open access can democratize knowledge.
We’ll explore ways to make climate and scholarly resources more inclusive, equitable, and accessible to all.
Introduction to the #semanticClimate | Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
GitHub Repository
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Event Pictures
Day 1 - Introduction of Semantic Encyclopedia | See more
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Day 2-Introduction and demonstration of tool for corpus creation | See more
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