Aerospace.Wikibase: Towards a Knowledge Infrastructure for Aerospace Engineering

2026-03-05

AI Summary

This work addresses the long-standing absence of a unified knowledge management infrastructure in aerospace engineering, which has led to data fragmentation and redundant research efforts. To remedy this, the study introduces Wikibase into the domain for the first time, establishing an open, extensible, and decentralized collaborative knowledge graph platform. Through a systematic literature review, the authors structurally extracted and integrated over 700 core terms, constructing a standardized, reusable, and interlinkable conceptual framework. The platform is designed to simultaneously support public knowledge co-creation and safeguard project-specific private information, thereby providing a sustainable infrastructural foundation for cross-team collaboration and long-term knowledge accumulation in aerospace engineering.

Technology Category

• Data Mining & Knowledge Management: Linked Open Data, Knowledge Graphs & KB Completion
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Knowledge Engineering
• Cognitive Modeling & Cognitive Systems: (Computational) Cognitive Architectures

Application Category

• Semantics and Knowledge: Scalable techniques for the creation, curation, publication, maintenance, and consumption of large, Web-based, structured, reusable, knowledge graphs and ontologies
• Graph Algorithms and Modeling for the Web: Graph embeddings and representation learning for Web-related graphs
• Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile and WoT: Web applications in cross-disciplinary domains and verticals such as mixed reality, smart cities, and digital health

Abstract

While Aerospace engineering can benefit greatly from collaborative knowledge management, its infrastructure is still fragmented. Bridging this divide is essential to reduce the current practice of redundant work and to address the challenges posed by the rapidly growing volume of aviation data. This study presents an accessible platform, built on Wikibase, to enable collaborative sharing and curation of aerospace engineering knowledge, initially populated with data from a recent systematic literature review. As a solid foundation, the Aerospace.Wikibase provides over 700 terms related to processes, software and data, openly available for future extension. Linking project-specific concepts to persistent, independent infrastructure enables aerospace engineers to collaborate on universal knowledge without risking the appropriation of project information, thereby promoting sustainable solutions to modern challenges while acknowledging the limitations of the industry.

Problem

• knowledge infrastructure
• aerospace engineering
• collaborative knowledge management
• data fragmentation
• aviation data

Innovation

• Wikibase
• knowledge infrastructure
• collaborative knowledge management
• aerospace engineering
• semantic interoperability