Within the ESIP community, there are a growing number of projects that use knowledge graphs (KG) to store, annotate, create, and share data. KGs are a potentially innovative way of working with data in an open and flexible way, but there are still a lot of open questions regarding their adoption within the earth sciences. In this session, we bring together some ESIP KG users and developers to discuss our varied approaches, challenges and goals in using knowledge graphs. The session will start with a very short description of knowledge graphs, and then feature lightning talks from our panelists. We’ll then open the panel up for general discussion. We’ll ask panelists questions like:
In which ESIP committees and clusters is your work discussed, if any?
Who do you see as your community?
What do you see as your use cases or competency questions for your resources?
Who do you wish you could connect to?
What are your thoughts on KG completion approaches (like them, hate them, etc)?
Do you do any validation of your graph resources? According to what criteria/standards/ontologies?
How do you discover connections of use for your community?
What does "governance" mean in your community
What is your sustainability model?
How do you balance organic development of the graph with the use of standards?
What do you see as the biggest challenges in this space? What are the biggest open research questions or engineering obstacles?
Recommended ways to prepare for this session: If attendees are not familiar with knowledge graphs, they might wish to skim the following chapter: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.02320.pdf
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