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Climate and Energy Policy Ontology (CEPO)#

Institutes#

  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
  • OFFIS – Institut für Informatik
  • Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
  • Universität Osnabrück
  • Reiner Lemoine Institut

Project#

NFDI4Energy

Keywords#

climate, policy, energy policy, climate policy atlas, CEPO, NFDI4Energy, ontology, sustainability, legislation, targets, policy instruments

Challenges#

Researchers examining policy instrument data related to energy and the climate need a standardized way to code data from text documents, so that the data is machine-readable and easily comparable to other data.

Solutions#

The Climate and Energy Policy Ontology (CEPO) catalogs terminology that describes policy instruments and targets related to sustainable energy transition. It forms the semantic base for the Climate Policy Atlas, a web portal for exploring energy-related policy data. Researchers use CEPO to annotate policy documents, improving data interoperability and helping to highlight connections between data.

OEO Connection#

  • CEPO’s entity structure and development workflows are based on those of the OEO.
  • CEPO was designed for interoperability with the OEO, using BFO and some OEO terms as a base for initial development.
  • Like the OEO, CEPO follows the ENERO Foundry principles.