Contribute: Join the Digital Library of Integral Ecology

How you can help build and grow this open knowledge commons.

This project is not just about building technology — it’s about building community.

The Digital Library of Integral Ecology is a shared, open infrastructure for people who care about the Earth, its people, and our common future. It brings together knowledge from science, policy, spirituality, and grassroots voices — and we want you to be part of it.

Ways to Get Involved

You don’t need to be a coder or a data scientist to contribute. Here are some ways anyone can help:

Annotate Reports

Help tag ecological concepts, organizations, places, and ideas in documents using Doccano. No technical skill required — just your careful reading.

We’re always looking for ecological reports in different languages and from diverse contexts (NGOs, indigenous communities, policy, faith-based orgs, etc.).

Send us PDFs or links to reports that should be included in the graph.

Train the AI

If you're technical, help us fine-tune our ecological NER models using annotated data. Or contribute to multilingual tagging tools and model evaluation.

Translate and Extend

Want to add new languages? New entity types like species, spiritual practices, or sacred sites? We're building a framework that’s meant to grow with your contributions.

Technical Contributors

If you’re a developer, here’s where you can help:

Improve entity extraction and citation linking
Enhance multilingual NLP support
Automate ingestion from online archives
Build interactive search and visualization tools
Create public datasets from the graph (JSONL, CSV, RDF, etc.)

Our GitHub repository includes Docker-based workflows, NLP scripts, a Makefile, and blog documentation — all ready to clone and explore.

How to Get Started

Star or fork the project on GitHub: github.com/clirdlf/dlie_knowledge_graph
Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/clirdlf/dlie_knowledge_graph.git
   cd dlie_knowledge_graph
   make up

Try annotating or improving a model:

make pipeline PDF=my-report.pdf

Join us on discussions (coming soon)

We’re Building This Together

This project is inspired by the principles of integral ecology, the idea that we must care for both the environment and the most vulnerable people it supports.

Building the Digital Library is a concrete act of hope. It’s a way to turn scattered, siloed knowledge into living, shared understanding.

Whether you’re a researcher, developer, librarian, artist, or student — you are welcome.

“All it takes is one good person to restore hope.” — Pope Francis, Laudato Si’