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)
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 third instance of the workshop, where the first one was held at The ACM Web Conference in 2023 and the second one was held at the Extended Semantic Web Conference in 2024 in Hersonissos, Crete (Grece). This year’s edition of the workshop is colocated with the Extended Semantic Web Conference on June 1st 2025, in Portoroz, Slovenia. In response to our call for papers we received overall 10 submissions (including both short and long papers, as well as one paper summary), and after a thorough review process where each submission got at least 3 high-quality reviews by the Program Committee, 6 of those are included in these workshop proceedings, and 3 were accepted as presentation only. In addition, the workshop featured a keynote talk by Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden, entitled “Semantic Web for the Circular Economy – Challenges and Opportunities” as well as an interactive discussion session where participants contrasted their works and discussed whether are we really contributing to sustainability. The main topics of the submitted papers were: KGs for managing environmental data, life-cycle assessment using KGs, and circular economy and digital product passports using KGs and the Semantic Web.
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), and the Collaborative Research Center Circular Factory for the Perpetual Product (DFG SFB 1574 – 471687386).