Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability (KG4S) @ESWC2025 - Deadline Extended to March 16th

*** Deadline Extended to March 16th ***

https://2025.kg4s.org/

* Call for papers *

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have in the past decade emerged as a core Web 
technology, 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, e.g. 
applications of KGs targeting sustainability challenges. This is highly 
timely and important due to the current state of the world, including 
ecological challenges such as the global climate crisis, acute loss of 
biodiversity, as well as social sustainability challenges such as 
increased unrest and threats to democracy in many countries around the 
world. As researchers of Web technologies, such as KGs, we should answer 
to these challenges and contribute to their resolution. This also shows 
in an increased amount of funded projects targeting technological 
solutions with sustainability goals in mind, as well as industry 
initiatives.

After two successful editions of the workshop in 2023 and 2024, in 2025 
the KG4S workshop once again invites novel research and advances in 
knowledge graph solutions for sustainability. The workshop's objectives 
are to share preliminary research results from academia and industry, as 
well as identify challenges and opportunities that can lead to new 
collaborations, new directions, and future research. The aim is to 
increase the contribution of knowledge graphs to the transformation 
towards global sustainability. Examples of knowledge graphs applications 
for sustainability include climate data expressed in knowledge graphs, 
for breaking climate data silos, knowledge graphs for supporting 
circular economy, and knowledge graphs for sustainable smart cities.

A global challenge such as the transformation towards a sustainable 
society requires global research efforts to be addressed. The Web is a 
unique global forum for sharing data, solutions and experiences that can 
support in addressing this challenge. The Semantic Web research 
community, could contribute to reaching these goals, and many efforts 
are indeed ongoing regarding all these areas of sustainability on the 
Web. In turn, KGs are being widely adopted, and serve as the core of 
many advanced applications on the Web, often powered using Web data. 
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 Web research community 
for improving sustainability using 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. Examples of KG 
applications for sustainability include climate data expressed in KGs, 
for breaking climate data silos, KGs for supporting circular economy, 
and KGs for sustainable smart cities.

* Topics *

The overall theme of the workshop is Knowledge Graphs, and KG-based 
Web solutions and applications, for sustainability. This includes 
both ecological, economical and social sustainability, and the full 
spectrum of methods for transforming our society towards these goals. 
Such methods and approaches include, for instance, the circular economy, 
as a way to reduce waste and improve ecological and economic 
sustainability of industry and consumption, and integration of climate 
data. Other examples are sustainable smart cities, where the city as a 
complex system is studied and redesigned to improve all aspects of 
sustainability, including the social aspect. However, these are merely 
examples of possible applications that support transformation towards 
sustainability, other methods and applications are very welcome as long 
as the connection to sustainability is clearly explained in the paper.

More specific research topics include, but are not limited to:

* KGs consisting of, or linking, sustainability data

* KG schemas (ontologies) for sustainability data

* Spatial and temporal aspects of KGs pertaining to sustainability

* KG or ontology patterns specifically important for describing, 
linking, and using sustainability data

* KG interfaces that support sustainability analysis

* Web infrastructure and approaches, related to KGs, for supporting 
sustainability aspects of the Web itself

* Applications supporting sustainability solutions by using KGs or other 
related Semantic Web technologies

* Sustainable use and development of KGs and KG-based applications

* Timeline *

All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.

* Submission deadline: March 6 March 16, 2025 (extended)

* Notifications: April 3, 2025

* Camera-ready papers: April 17, 2025

* Workshop date: TBD (June 1st or 2nd)