A Scoping Quan i ica ion o he IPCC's Six h Assessmen
Repo o he Pu pose o Using he Tex Co pus in a
Knowledge G aph
The se en main epo s o IPCC’s Six h Assessmen Repo we e examined
wi h espec o a numbe o quan i iable aspec s, including: au ho lis s,
wo d coun , e e ences, da a, glossa y e ms, and ac onyms, e c.
Summa y: A epo on quan i y he IPCC’s Six h Assessmen Repo co pus, as s ep one, o he
so wa e de elopmen p ojec o c ea ing a knowledge g aph o hold he epo ex co pus. The
objec i e o his s ep in he de elopmen p ocess is o es ablish he scale and scope o wha is o
be included in he knowledge g aph.
Keywo ds: IPCC, Six h Assessmen Repo , AR6, clima e change, seman ic publishing, linked open
da a, Wikibase, Wikida a, MediaWiki, knowledge g aph, clima e knowledge g aph, seman icclima e
Au ho s
Lau a Oldenbou g, ORCID: 0009-0003-5070-0099 email: lau a.oldenbou [email p o ec ed]
Simon Wo hing on, ORCID: 0000-0002-8579-9717
Da e: 2025-11-04
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17516064
Wikida a: Q136701079
Licence:
C ea i e Commons A ibu ion 4.0 In e na ional
h ps://c ea i ecommons.o g/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
By Clima e Knowledge G aph (CKG) p ojec : h ps:// ibhanno e .gi hub.io/clima e-knowledge-
g aph/
Abou CKG p ojec : An R&D p ojec o make a knowledge g aph o he open access pa s o he
10,000 page IPCC’s Six h Assessmen Repo co pus.
Gi Hub eposi o y: h ps://gi hub.com/TIBHanno e /clima e-knowledge-g aph
Sho i le: Repo Quan i ying AR6
Type o epo : So wa e de elopmen p ojec epo
Repo se ies: CKG build #1 TIB Inno unds (July 2025-June 2026)
Repo se ies Zenodo (ckg- epo -se ies-1):
Funded by: TIB Inno a ion Fund
Pa ne s: TIB (ROR: 04aj4c181), #seman icClima e, and NIPGR (ROR: 04zw11527)
De elopmen oadmap
1. Scoping
1. Quan i y epo co pus ( his epo )
2. Repo s uc u e
3. Typese ing equi emen s o CKG sys em (CSS Paged Media)
2. Da a modelling
1. C ea e co pus da a model
2. Documen da a sou ce add esses and collec da a p e-impo
3. Wikibase es ing (p o o ype ideas)
3. R Cs – O e all sys em; Wikibase, and Da a model (speci ic o Wikibase and LOD)
4. Impo
1. Build ex impo Selenium module o CPS Imp ess
2. De ine scope o co pus impo
3. Build Selenium Sc ape o AR6 ex
4. Impo AR6 ex and suppo ing da a in o Wikibase
5. Ou pu : Anno a ion and publishing
1. Enable Wikibase anno a ion ea u es o IPCC and communi y: #seman icClima e; TIB
e minology se ice; ORKG Rebo n. (p oo o concep )
2. AR6 epo p esen a ion in MediaWiki
3. Sea ch in MediaWiki
4. Sea ch, e iew, and publish (p oo o concep )
5. Publica ion deposi s: TIB Rena e, TIB Open Publishing (scoping/p oo o concep )
Mo i a ion
The mo i a ion o he exe cise was o es ablish he ex en o which he de elopmen o a
knowledge g aph would ake shape om he epo s.
Desc ip ion
In he absence o a comp ehensi e quan i a i e analysis o he main epo s o he IPCC’s Six h
Assessmen Repo (AR6), he ini ial s eps ha e been aken o compile a se o igu es o gain a
clea e unde s anding o he scope o hese epo s.
As his p elimina y ound o da a collec ion was pa ly based on manual coun s and es ima es, i
will be necessa y o complemen and alida e he igu es h ough au oma ed me hods in a
subsequen phase.
Findings
I is impo an o no e hese a e p elimina y scoping igu es.
I em Coun S a us
Numbe o main epo s 7 De ini i e
Open access license 6 De ini i e
Repo DOIs ( op le el) 7 Good
Page coun 10,047 App ox.
Wo d coun 8,047,000 App ox.
Au ho s 1,106 App ox *
Re e ences 48,400 App ox. *
SYR No es - To be con i med
Figu es 1,672 App ox.
Da a 66,834 App ox. *
Glossa y e ms 925 Good
Ac onyms 3041 App ox. *
Index e ms 5463 App ox. *
T ansla ions See: me hods
Wikida a en ies ( epo op le el) 13 App ox.
Wikida a en ies - da a ypes - To be con i med
Table 1: Summa y o IPCC Assessmen Repo Six quan i ica ion. P o isional igu es. *Con ains
duplica es
Fu he wo k
An au oma ed coun will be ca ied ou using TIB G obi so wa e in Q1 2026.
Me hods
The me hods a ied om ask o ask. Fo some igu es, i was possible o ind eposi o ies o d aw
igu es om, while in o he cases we app oxima ed igu es in o de o ob ain a an es ima e.
See ull de ail on me hods in he appendix: Appendix 1 - Da a ga he ing and me hods no ebook.
Appendix
Appendix 1 - AR6 quan i ica ion - Da a ga he ing and me hods no ebook.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17521819
Da a and esou ces
Quan i ica ion summa y as cs and xlsx iles. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17521935
Links and e e ences
Links
IPCC Repo websi e: h ps://www.ipcc.ch/ epo s/
Websi e o AR6: h ps://www.ipcc.ch/assessmen - epo /a 6/
IPCC Au ho s’ eposi o y h ps://apps.ipcc.ch/ epo /au ho s/au ho s.php
IPCC glossa y b owse h ps://apps.ipcc.ch/glossa y/
IPCC Da a b owse h ps://ipcc-da a.o g/a 6landing.h ml
Wikipedia a icles on epo s:
Wikipedia on WGI h ps://en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/IPCC_Six h_Assessmen _Repo #WG1 epo
Wikipedia on WGII
h ps://en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/IPCC_Six h_Assessmen _Repo #Wo king_G oup_2_ epo _(impac s
,_adap a ion_and_ ulne abili y)
Wikipedia on WGIII
h ps://en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/IPCC_Six h_Assessmen _Repo #Wo king_G oup_3_ epo _(mi iga i
on_o _clima e_change)
Wikipedia on SR1.5
h ps://en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/Special_Repo _on_Global_Wa ming_o _1.5_%C2%B0C
Wikipedia on SRCCCL
h ps://en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/Special_Repo _on_Clima e_Change_and_Land
Wikipedia on SROCC
h ps://en.wikipedia.o g/wiki/Special_Repo _on_ he_Ocean_and_C yosphe e_in_a_Changing_Cli
ma e
Re e ences
Re e ences in Zo e o g oup:
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ckg%20 epo %20quan i ica ion/collec ion
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