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Category:

  • Societal

  • Ecological

Subcategory:

  • Ecosystem services & management

  • Society & the environment

  • Environmental governance and policy networks

Tool Type:

  • Interactive visualization system

  • Knowledge graph explorer

  • Analytical / mapping tool

Input Data:

  • European legislation (directives, regulations, policies)

  • Institutional and organizational data (umbrella bodies, ministries, executive agencies)

  • MARBEFES Broad Biogeographical Typologies (BBTs)

  • Spatial and sectoral metadata

Output:

  • Interactive knowledge graph visualization

  • Node-level detailed information panels

  • Layer-based network maps (location, umbrella, executive agency, sector, policy, legislation)

  • Graph-based relationships among BBTs and governance frameworks

Target User:

  • Researchers

  • Policy advisors and decision-makers

  • Practitioners and project coordinators

  • Data managers

Location Tested:

  • Tested internally at LifeWatch ERIC HQ (Seville, Spain)

  • Demo datasets include EU institutions and governance frameworks linked to MARBEFES BBTs

    Availability / URL:

    • Currently under internal deployment by LifeWatch ERIC

    • Future integration planned in: https://marbefes.eu/tools

    • Prototype and test environment available upon request

  • Developed: 2025

  • Developer: LifeWatch ERIC

  • Technology stack: Knowledge graph database, interactive network visualization engine (JavaScript + D3/Vis.js)

  • License: © 2025 LifeWatch ERIC – internal tool, under development for MARBEFES Toolbox and other projects.

  • Updates: Regular content and ontology updates planned through the LifeWatch ERIC semantic team

  • Lead Developer: ICT-Core at LifeWatch ERIC

  • Support Team: LifeWatch ERIC Semantic Infrastructure Group

  • Tool in development by LifeWatch ERIC (2025). HG&OG – Horrendograms & Organigrams Knowledge Graph Explorer. Part of the MARBEFES Toolbox.

HG&OG tool

The HG&OG Tool (Horrendograms & Organigrams) is an advanced interactive knowledge graph platform developed by LifeWatch ERIC in 2025. Its main goal is to connect European legislation, organizations, and MARBEFES BBTs (Broad Biogeographical Typologies) within a unified, dynamic and visual system.

The tool combines the structural logic of organigrams (institutional hierarchies and relationships among agencies, departments, and ministries) with the relational complexity of horrendograms (multilayered conceptual maps). This dual representation allows users to explore how legislation, policies, executive agencies, and sectors interconnect across spatial (location-based) and administrative (umbrella and policy-based) layers.

Built as a web-based visualization engine, HG&OG offers full graph navigation and interaction: users can drag and reorganize nodes, double-click to view detailed information, and filter by categories such as Location, Umbrella, Executive Agency, Sector, Policy, and Legislation. The system integrates a distance filter (1–3 hops from any node) to control the complexity of the displayed network and focus on relevant relationships.

The platform functions similarly to Obsidian’s graph view, offering a semantic navigation experience through interconnected data layers. This makes it especially useful for exploring policy relationships, institutional dependencies, and the connections between governance frameworks and MARBEFES BBTs.

HG&OG is part of the LifeWatch ERIC knowledge infrastructure, supporting policy advisors, environmental researchers, and ecosystem managers in understanding how governance systems influence biodiversity-related domains. The application uses graph-based storage and visualization frameworks, integrating both manually curated and automatically extracted metadata from European institutional and legislative datasets.

Availability / URL:

  • Currently under internal deployment by LifeWatch ERIC

  • Future integration planned in: https://marbefes.eu/tools

  • Prototype and test environment available upon request