Discipline Hopping for Discovery Science
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Environment
Abstract
This funding will be used to fund a series of short projects that will explore exciting environmental science questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives across the life, physical, and social sciences, and the arts and humanities. By working with researchers from different disciplines, the teams will develop new understandings of their own fields, and develop new approaches to pressing questions in environmental science.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Lindsay Stringer (Principal Investigator) |
| Title | An ontology-type knowledge base representing domain expertise in nature-based solutions to climate change |
| Description | This is an OWL ontology stored in Turtle format. It is an open linked data type database encoding key concepts and their relations was created to encode our environment expert's domain knowledge in order to assist and guide automated information extraction from NDC (spell in full?) documents. The resulting ontology has a 4-level deep hierarchy of concepts, contains 100+ concepts and 6 main relations between them; it can be easily incorporated in any information system using this type of representation. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | A joint research proposal with Binus University (Jakarta, Indonesia) was developed with the aim of using and further developing this ontology. The proposal was submitted to the British Council. |
| Description | Digital Environment Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This interactive workshop bridged disciplinary gaps, bringing together researchers from the Digital Creativity Lab and scientists from Environment and Geography, Biology, The Stockholm Environment Institute and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop at Lindisfarne |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ~15 invited experts attended a two-day workshop to discuss blue carbon ecosystems, leading to the formation of new research collaborations and the submission of a UKRI grant application |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |