Workshop Proceedings Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a core part of the Semantic Web and have in the past decade emerged as a central theme on the Web, powering many real-world applications. Not the least because of an increased focus on Explainable AI and Data Science, where KGs can play a key role in both providing semantic interoperability and data integration (linking), as well as reasoning with the represented knowledge. KGs have been applied both in general scenarios, such as Web search and retrieval, as well as in many domain-specific applications. This workshop targets KGs specifically for sustainability, i.e., applications of KGs targeting sustainability challenges.
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ceur-ws.org (M. Poveda-Villalón) initiatives, such as the DataCommons sustainability KGs1 promoted by Google.
With this workshop we therefore want to highlight the intersection between Knowledge Graphs on the Web, and sustainability research. This workshop specifically targets approaches from the Semantic Web research community for improving sustainability using, for instance, KG technologies. The objectives of the workshop are both to share preliminary research results from academia and industry, as well as identifying challenges and opportunities that can lead to new collaborations, new directions, and future research. Ultimately the aim is to increase the contribution of KGs to the transformation towards global sustainability.
This is the second instance of the workshop, where the previous one was held at The ACM Web Conference in 2023. This year’s edition of the workshop is instead colocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference on May 27th 2024, in Hersonissos, Crete (Greece). In response to our call for papers we received overall 10 submissions (including both short and long papers, as well as industry talk abstracts), and after a thorough review process where each submission got at least 3 high quality reviews by the Program Committee, 8 of those are included in these workshop proceedings, and one additional work constituted an industry poster presentation in the workshop. In addition, the workshop featured a keynote talk by Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, USA, entitled “KnowWhereGraph and Sustainability” as well as interactive discussions.
Program Committee Acknowledgments This workshop was supported by the research grants Onto-DESIDE (EU Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101058682), Trace4Value (Vinnova, Sweden), AURORAL (EU H2020 Grant Agreement No. 101016854), EduGate (NSF award 2333532), SAWGraph (NSF award 2333782), KnowledgeSpaces (PID2020-118274RB-I00), IntCDC (DFG EXC 2120/1 – 390831618), and COFFEE (DFG SPP 1921 – 318363223). 1https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/data-commons-sustainability/