CovKG: A Covid-19 Knowledge Graph for enabling multidimensional analytics on Covid-19 epidemiological data considering spatiotemporal, environmental, health, and socioeconomic aspects

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic is influenced by many environmental, health, and socioeconomic aspects such as air pollution, comorbidity, occupation, etc. To better manage future pandemics, decision-makers need comprehensive data on Covid-19 mortality and morbidity. Most Covid-19 data sources focus on spatiotemporal aspects, and existing research often overlook the combined impact of multiple interconnected factors. This study introduces a Covid-19 Knowledge Graph (CovKG) derived from 20 data sources, enabling multidimensional analysis of epidemiological data, including time, location, temperature, comorbidity, occupation, and others. CovKG is modeled using RDF, connected to 10,951 external resources, and semantically enriched with Data Cube (QB) and QB for OLAP (QB4OLAP) vocabularies to adhere to the FAIR principles and ensure OLAP compatibility. Finally, we perform a qualitative and comparative evaluation and extract statistical insights across multiple dimensions of Covid-19 epidemiology. When assessed, CovKG answers 100% of competency queries, outperforming other data stores that only answer 39%. CovKG and its analytical interface are available at https://bike-csecu.com/datasets/CovKG/.