The Research Network for Environmental Online Communication (ECOresearch) presents and promotes interactive technologies for bringing together stakeholders of different disciplines and geographic regions to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of new media applications that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Technology showcases such as the Media Watch on Climate Change, the Climate Resilience Toolkit and the Climate Challenge build upon the webLyzard media monitoring and Web intelligence platform. Between 2021 and 2027, the Horizon Europe Programme with its focus on the Green Deal will present new opportunities to extend and refine the results of past research projects on natural language processing, opinion mining, semantic technologies and visual analytics.
As part of the DecarboNet research project and ongoing collaboration between international partner organizations, the Media Watch on Climate Change has been transformed from a news and social media aggregator into a collective awareness platform including advanced support of real-time collaboration among citizens and environmental stakeholders. The platform was outlined in a recent IEEE Internet Computing article and presented by Prof. Arno Scharl at the 46th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. The platform will further be extended as part of Climateurope2, a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded by the Horizon Europe Programme, as well as the Austrian “AI for Green” FFG project CRISP focusing on Crisis Response & Intervention Supported by Semantic Data Pooling.
The Slideshare presentation outlines how to extract and visualize environmental knowledge from online sources, and how semantic technologies can contribute to integrated monitoring solutions and the identification of emerging issues.