Linked data, geographical search, and faceting Extending Blacklight and VIVO for supporting curation and discovery of climate change science content Huda Khan, Darcy Branchini, Sandy Payette, Ingrid Zabel, Arthur DeGaetano, Jon Corson-Rikert Cornell University DLF Forum 2016

Overview Background Site Demo System and Architecture Overview Extensions Questions

What is the NYCCSC? A 3-year project funded by With additional partners Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), SUNY Collect of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, NOAA, and the Cornell University Northeast Regional Climate Center

What is the NYCCSC? Central point of search and access to climate change information relevant to NY State Audience to include state & local policy makers, researchers, and members of the public Inform future research and enable scientifically sound and cost-effective policy decisions Site launched August 2016 No CENTRAL point of search – multiple websites – can we access all this information in the same place “No central, searchable repository or clearinghouse to collect, store, summarize, interpret, and disseminate NYSERDA: nystate energy research and development authority SUNY ESF: college of environmental science and forestry, NRCCL Northeast Regional Climate Center, NESCAUM: Northeast states for coordinated air use management, national oceanic and atmospheric administration Long term vision: regional resource for Northeast Information: relevant, quality Leverage and improve upon the capabilities of existing state, regional and federal climate-related sites

User-centered design approach Iterative design and refinement Multiple rounds of user testing and feedback Interviews, think alouds, focus groups Evaluating site as a whole Evaluating specific features or functionality Project team and stakeholders

Site Demo Multiple types of content Multiple entry points for discovery/browsing Textual search Faceted search Geographic search Links between content and climate change concepts

Onondaga County Climate Action Plan System Overview Supported processes Curation Discovery Sector Climate Change Effect Strategy Action Model: Ontology Map Data Document USGS Streamflow Gauge Climate Data Grapher Onondaga County Climate Action Plan Content

Onondaga County Climate Action Plan Transportation Information applicable To sector Mitigation Reduce emissions … Addresses strategy Outlines action Onondaga County Climate Action Plan

Information Content Entity Sector Information applicable To sector Strategy Action Addresses strategy Outlines action Information Content Entity

VIVO (Black) NYCCSC (Red)

NYCCSC Architecture Overview Solr Blacklight Discovery: Blacklight Retrieve info from Solr and VIVO Search index: VIVO Solr Modified with additional facets Curation: NYCCSC VIVO Climate change ontology SPARQL results SPARQL results, JSON from VIVO NYCCSC Ontology NYCCSC VIVO VIVO-ISF Ontology VIVO Vitro

Onondaga County Climate Action plan Ontology to Discovery Sector_facet = * Applicable to sector Onondaga County Climate Action plan Transportation Sector_facet= Transportation SPARQL SELECT (str(?ContextNodeProperty) as ?contextNodeProperty) WHERE { ?uri ?p ?sector . ?sector rdfs:label ?ContextNodeProperty . ?sector rdf:type ccsc:Sector . }

NYCCSC Extensions Overview Fields for facets and display Solr Blacklight VIVO JSON output Sparql query results retrieval and caching Geographical search (based on GeoBlacklight work) Output JSON for individual entities SPARQL queries for facets Model and handle climate change concepts NYCCSC VIVO NYCCSC Ontology

Wouldn’t it be great if… The richness of the underlying model Could be leveraged for Improved visualization/navigation/display/interface design? Bringing in external linked data relationships? Alignment with other ontologies?

Questions? NYCCSC available at http://www.nyclimatescience.org Image from http://www.bypolaropposite.com/whatsplaying- entertainmentcelebrity/2015/2/28/live-long-and-prosper-leonard