A disruptive integrative and collaborative philosophy that integrates data science and collaborative modelling on the semantic web, enabling scientific data and models to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, helping individuals, businesses, and governments make better informed decisions. The IM Partnership is a strategic initiative of the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3), which brings together institutions contributing to designing and building a fully integrated information landscape for the science of the future.

More information: www.integratedmodelling.org

What is k.LAB?

A Technology for Knowledge Integration,  enabling  a Semantic Web of scientific observations powered by Artificial Intelligence, which builds computational solutions to environmental, policy and sustainability problems.

k.LAB: a modeling environment that helps researchers answer sustainability questions through the power of integration.

The Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) has developed k.LAB, the knowledge laboratory, a web accessible software that uses the meaning of information, its semantics, to integrate knowledge through Artificial Intelligence. Through this modelling environment, researchers can contribute knowledge from their discipline and seamlessly connect it to the knowledge generated by others through the use of shared semantics. The result is a powerful tool where users can enter their queries and k.LAB is able to select the most appropriate knowledge available building for the first time new knowledge from the integration of the existing one.

More information: www.integratedmodelling.org

Thematic application to Ecosystem Services,  Flagship Project: ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services)

Through its flagship project ARIES, BC3 has applied this approach to understanding ecosystem services, the set of benefits humans obtain from nature, through a knowledge base that includes models of clean drinking water, crop pollination and outdoor recreation among others. To address one of the most complex problems in science today the ARIES project interconnects data and models across ecological, social and economic domains. providing answers to questions such as: how can we promote the conservation and how can we make our societies more sustainable.