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 a 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: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"
Overview
Organized by: New York Tech Libraries — The World of Open, International Open Access Week, October 20–26, 2025
Date: October 20–26, 2025 Mode: Online
Program Schedule
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| Title | Date | Time | Location | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 #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 — Introduction to the Semantic Encyclopedia
Time: 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM IST | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM UTC
Presented by: Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, Mr. Simon Worthington, Ms. Shaik Zainab Link to presentation · Link to video
Introduction to the Semantic Encyclopedia | Ms. Shaik Zainab
NYIT public event listing: Link
Session Outline
- Introduction by Vanessa Viola (host) — 5 mins
- Mechanics of this session (orientation)
- Livestream / Chat / Recording
- Questions and interjections welcome
- Who owns our knowledge — Peter Murray-Rust (10 mins)
- Simon Worthington (2 mins) — 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 resists change.
- Shaik Zainab — Presents the Semantic Encyclopedia (20 mins). Slides
- Ingest of material
- Create keyphrase list
- Create encyclopedia
- Annotation — Peter Murray-Rust
- Climate Knowledge Graph — Simon Worthington (10 mins). Slides
- Interactive KG — Shweata Hegde (5 mins). Link
- Paged Media CSS — Simon Worthington (10 mins). Slides
Resources
- Semantic Encyclopedia: blog post · GitHub · demo publication
- #sC Resources
Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM IST | 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM UTC
We participated in OAW 2025 by hosting a talk and a workshop on opening up climate knowledge and scholarly literature.
Our sessions explored how semantic tools can make research more transparent, equitable, and impactful — ensuring critical knowledge is available to all, not locked behind paywalls. The session title was "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
Time: 8:30–9:45 AM EST | 6:00–7:15 PM IST | 12:30–1:45 PM UTC
- Introduction to the semantic tool by Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager, #semanticClimate
- Hands-on demonstration by Ms. Udita Agarwal (BRIC-NIPGR), Dr. Renu Kumari, and Ms. Shaik Zainab (Anurag University, Hyderabad)
This session was a hands-on demonstration of the pygetpapers semantic tool for building a corpus of open access literature in a structured, machine-readable format for further analysis.
Applications of a semantic, structured corpus:
- Training NLP models for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and automated summarization
- Facilitating literature reviews — identifying research gaps and formulating hypotheses
Challenges this addresses as publication volume grows exponentially:
- Bulk download of data in less time
- Machine-readable format
- Single platform to access data
- Automated article retrieval from open access repositories
- Updated record of literature
Introduction to the semantic tools | Dr. Renu Kumari
Demonstration of the semantic tools | Ms. Udita Agarwal
Session 2 (Talk): Who Owns Our Knowledge? An Introduction to #semanticClimate
By: Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Co-founder #semanticClimate, Scientist at BRIC-NIPGR, New Delhi, India Time: 12:30–1:50 PM EST | 10:00–11:20 PM IST | 4:30–5:50 PM UTC
This session explored the critical question of ownership in research and knowledge sharing, and how open access can democratize knowledge — with a focus on making climate and scholarly resources more inclusive, equitable, and accessible to all.
Introduction to #semanticClimate | Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
GitHub Repository
Event Photos
Day 1 — Introduction of the Semantic Encyclopedia
Day 2 — Corpus Creation Demonstration
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