semanticClimate at International Open Access Week 2025

Event: Open Access Week 2025

Theme: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”

Hosted by: New York Tech Libraries

Date: October 20–26, 2025

Mode : Online

Program Schedule Click Here to read

Title	Date	Time	Location	People
Virtual Sandbox, Semantic Encyclopedia	Monday, October 20, 2025	9:30 PM – 11:30 PM IST	Online	Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, Mr. Simon Worthington, Ms. Shaik Zainab, Dr. Renu Kumari
Corpus creation from open access repositories and their analysis with semantic tools	Friday, October 24, 2025	6:00 PM – 7:15 PM IST	Online	Dr. Renu Kumari, Ms. Udita Agarwal, Ms. Shaik Zainab, Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, Mr. Simon Worthington
Introduction to the #semanticClimate by co-Founder Dr. Gitanjali Yadav	Friday, October 24, 2025	10:00 PM – 11:20 PM IST	Online	Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Prof. Peter Murray-Rust, Mr. Simon Worthington

Monday October 20, 2025

• Launch of Semantic Encyclopedia

• Time: 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM IST | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC

• Presentation by:

  • Prof. Peter Murray-Rust
  • Mr. Simon Worthington
  • Ms. Shaik Zainab

    • Link to presentation

    • Link to video

Agenda: Introduction to the Semantic Encyclopedia, 20th October 2025

• NYIT public website event information: Link

Program Schedule for Monday October 20, 2025

• Introduction by Vanessa Viola (host) - 5 mins

• Mechanics of this session (orientation)

• Livestream

• Chat

• Recording

• Encourage questions (interjections welcome)

• Who owns our knowledge

  • Peter Murray-Rust (10 mins)

• List blogposts PMR

  • What Semantic Climate Brings to Open Access in 2025
  • Budapest 24 years on
  • Open Access Week 2025 and semanticClimate
  • Who Owns Our Knowledge?
  • Large Language Models and Who Owns Our Knowledge
  • What Can We Do About Knowledge Ownership?

• Simon Worthington - 2 minutes

  • How to make change? - Using guides to multiply know-how. E.g., CS4RL LIBER Citizen Science Guides
  • In the context of a publishing regime that is incapable of change.

• Shaik Zainab (SZ) - Presents Semantic Encyclopedia - 20 mins Link to Slides

  • Ingest of material
  • Create keyphrase list
  • Create encyclopedia
  • Annotation - PMR

• Climate Knowledge Graph SW - 10 mins

  • Slides
  • Shweata Hegde - interactive KG 5 mins, Link

• Paged Media CSS SW - 10 mins

  • Slides

• Resources

• semantic Encyclopedia

  • Blogpost - semantic Encyclopedia What is an Encyclopedia? - (about, workflow)
  • GitHub landing page - Link
  • Demo publication - demo

• #sC Resources - Click Here

Friday October 24, 2025

Title of the session: "Open Science and Citizen Science with #semanticClimate: Open-Software for Knowledge Liberation".

• Session 1: Corpus creation from open access repositories and their analysis with semantic tools

As part of Open Access Week 2025, semanticClimate is demonstrating the semantic tool pygetpapers for automated corpus creation from open access repositories for published scholarly literatures.

Our sessions will explore how semantic tools can be used to make research more transparent, equitable, and impactful—ensuring that critical knowledge is available to all, not locked behind paywalls.

• Date : October 24, 2025

• Time 8:30 - 9:45 AM EST | 6:00 – 7:15 PM IST | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM UTC

• Introduction of semantic tool: Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate

  • Link to presentation

• Hands-on Demonstration:

  • Ms. Udita Agarwal, Ph.D Student, BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR) and
  • Dr. Renu Kumari, Program Manager #semanticClimate and
  • Ms. Shaik Zainab, Anurag University, Hyderabad.

  • Link to Notebook

• Session 2 (Talk): Who Owns Our Knowledge? An Introduction to the #semanticClimate

• By Dr. Gitanjali Yadav, Co-founder #semanticClimate and Scientist at BRIC-National Institute of Plant Genome Research (BRIC-NIPGR), New Delhi, India

• Time 12:30 - 1:50 PM EST | 10:00 PM – 11:20 PM IST | 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM UTC

This session will explore the critical question of ownership in research and knowledge sharing and how open access can democratize knowledge.