2021 ESIP Winter Meeting

Description: The challenges confronting the Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) are increasingly complex, avoiding categorization or solution within neatly defined disciplinary boxes. Transdisciplinary, or "antidisciplinary," approaches are required to address threats in ESS like climate change and space weather.  However, existing approaches to integrating data and knowledge remain crippling to progress and collaboration. Thus, now is the critical time to bring together the antidisciplinary communities to create a new paradigm of knowledge integration using knowledge graphs/networks and semantic technologies. We will collect contributions that utilize these approaches to better structure knowledge across projects. This session will emerge the success stories and best practices for knowledge graphs across ESS.

Format: We propose to highlight the 'home run stories' in the Earth and Space Sciences to create knowledge graphs/networks that have improved information flows between individuals, projects, groups, and data systems. We will first feature these use cases, then hold a discussion period to emerge new articulation, methods, and research vistas for KGs across the Earth and Space Sciences. We hope that the discussion will emerge data models that can be generally used and processes for tailoring them to new applications.
Conveners:

• Ryan McGranaghan - Principal Data Scientist and Aerospace Engineering Scientist at ASTRA LLC
• Barbara Thompson - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Emily Law - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Lewis McGibbney - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Agenda

• (4 - 4:10 PM) Presentation - opening remarks    
  • Speaker: Ryan McGranaghan
• (4:10 - 4:20 PM) Introduction to panel speakers    
  • All; Ryan McGranaghan to moderate
• (4:20 - 4:45 PM) Panel Discussion    
  • General topics (panel member):
    • Different approaches to building a KG (Deborah L. McGuinness)
    • The socio-technical perspective of KGs (Juan Sequeda)
    • Role of KGs in AI/ML (Leilani Gilpin)
    • Using KGs to link domains (Krzysztof Janowicz)
• (4:45 - 5:10 PM) Breakout sensemaking groups    
• (5:10 - 5:25 PM) ‘What, so what, now what?' Exercise to get feedback from breakouts 
  • Moderator: Ryan McGranaghan and session conveners
• (5:25 - 5:30 PM) Concluding chat   

Panelists

• Juan Sequeda - Principal Scientist at data.world
• Krzysztof Janowicz - Professor of Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
• Leilani H. Gilpin - Research Scientist at Sony AI; PhD MIT CSAIL
• Deborah L. McGuinness - Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Founding director of the Web Science Research Center at RPI

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