Geoscience

Our new paper has just been published in SoftwareX: “mcp-fdsnws-event: An MCP gateway for FDSNWS-Event web services”, by Valentino Lauciani and Daniele Bailo. The paper presents mcp-fdsnws-event, an open-source software component that creates a bridge between standard services used by the seismological community and the emerging ecosystem of applications based on Large Language Models and AI agents. The starting point is simple. For many years, the seismological community has used the FDSN Web Services standard to query earthquake catalogues and retrieve information about seismic events. These services are robust, interoperable and widely adopted, but using them normally requires knowledge of APIs, query parameters and formats such as QuakeML. ...

Whoever governs knowledge also governs Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the strategic technologies that will shape science, industry, and public institutions over the coming decades. Discussions often focus on which language model performs best or which company will release the next breakthrough. Yet a more fundamental question is emerging: Who governs the knowledge on which AI systems rely? Our new paper, published in Earth Science Informatics, argues that trustworthy scientific AI cannot depend solely on increasingly capable language models. It also requires a new way of governing scientific knowledge. ...