Getting started with semantic Climate

A beginner's guide to #semanticClimate

Welcome to the beginner's guide to #semanticClimate.

Starting an internship with us is a great way to help fight climate change.

Interns are at the core of our work. They commit to work in our program and in return create great value for the world and also learn a great set of transferable skills.

The internship duration varies from 12 weeks to 6 months. It can be online as well as offline.

The Program

You will be required to install and alpha test the semanticClimate toolkits. These tools will be used to do analysis of climate reports.

The tools are the following:

• amilib
• amiclimate
• pygetpapers
• docanalysis

Here’s a list of general joining tasks for interns:

PHASE 0: ONBOARDING

• Install python and pip
• Install git and get an ID on GitHub
• install pytest
• be able to use a text editor (Notepad++, TextMate, or many others NOT Word)
• have an IDE (VSCode, PyCharm, etc.). Go for the freely accessible community editions.
• learn the basics of Markdown

PHASE 1: UNIT TESTING

Cloning amilib repository from github and running pytest from commandline/terminal

• Step 1: open the terminal.
• Step 2: Make directory where you want to save the repository.
• Step 3: Go to that directory with cd
• Step 4: Clone the repository with this git clone https://github.com/petermr/amilib.git
• Step 5: Go to the specific directory with cd amilib
• Step 6: Check the branch for running the test and then checkout to that branch git checkout [branch name]
• Step 7: Do git pull for fetching all the changes made remotely to the local repository.
• Step 8: Run all the test with pytest
• Step 9: Report the errors if any to the amilib repository in the issue section.

PHASE 2: PROGRESSING

• Follow the similar steps mentioned for amilib for cloning and running pytest for amiclimate repository.

PHASE 3: LEARNING git COMMANDS

Here are some essential git commands along with descriptions of their functionalities:

• git clone repository URL

  • Copies an existing repository from a remote server to your local machine. The repository URL can be an HTTP(s) URL or an SSH URL.

• git status

  • Displays the state of the working directory and the staging area. It shows which changes have been staged, which haven’t, and which files aren’t being tracked by Git.

• git add file

  • Adds the specified file to the staging area, making it ready to be committed. You can also use git add . to stage all changes in the current directory.

• git commit -m "message"

  • Records the changes in the staging area to the repository with a descriptive commit message.

• git push remote branch

  • Uploads local branch commits to the remote repository branch. For example, git push origin main pushes changes to the main branch of the remote repository named origin.

• git pull remote branch

  • Fetches and integrates changes from the remote repository to your local working directory. This command is a combination of git fetch and git merge.

• git branch

  • Lists all the branches in your repository. Adding an argument like git branch [branch-name] creates a new branch.

• git checkout branch name

  • Switches to the specified branch.

• git stash

  • Temporarily shelves (or "stashes") changes in the working directory that are not ready to be committed. Use git stash pop to reapply the stashed changes later.

How to create new branch of a repository

• CLICK HERE to Read the steps

Learn to use Regular expression (regex)

• CLICK HERE

PHASE 4: Climate Report Selection

• Go to IPCC official website.
• Navigate through the different working groups from here.
• Watch the presentation video for the overview of IPCC/AR6 report.
• Select a chapter from the IPCC/AR6 report that you find interesting.
• Download and convert it to semantic form using amilib and amiclimate tool.
• Create a dictionary specific to the selected chapter and annotating the chapter with dictionary terms.

Read about the projects done by Interns

Click Here

Resources for climate knowledge

Click Here

HIGH-PRIORITY:

• See the resource page of #semanticClimate website.
• Attend daily Zoom meetings.
• Report problems to the specific github repositories as an issue with full description.
• Update daily progress sheet (what I DID, what I WILL do, What's BLOCKING me): CLICK HERE
• Share weekly reports on every Friday.
• Join our Slack workspace that’s where we coordinate with team members and others.
• Update your unavailability for meeting in #coordination channel of Slack.
• Email to semanticclimate@gmail.com for any query.

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