Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, spanning countries and continents, societies and generations, sectors and disciplines. Yet crucial data and information on climate issues are still too often amassed – diffuse – in closed silos. Climate Tagger utilizes Linked Open Data to scan, sort, categorize and enrich climate and development-related data, improving efficiency and performance of knowledge management systems.
Climate Tagger brings together the semantic power of Semantic Web Company’s PoolParty Semantic Suite with the domain expertise of REEEP and CTCN, resulting in an automatic annotation module for Drupal 7 and CKAN with an accuracy never seen before.
“Climate Tagger is the result of a shared commitment to breaking down the ‘information silos’ that exist in the climate compatible development community, and to provide concrete solutions that can be implemented right now, anywhere” said REEEP Director General Martin Hiller. “Together with CTCN and SWC laid the foundations for a system that can be continuously improved and expanded to bring new sectors, systems and organizations into the climate knowledge community.”
For the Open Data and Linked Open Data communities, a Climate Tagger plugin for CKAN has also been published, which was developed by developed by NREL in cooperation with CTCN’s support, harnessing the same taxonomy and expert vetted thesaurus behind the Climate Tagger, helping connect open data to climate compatible content through the simultaneous use of these tools.
Link: Climate Tagger website
