- ARCHIVE / Information Architecture
- Zero Hunger Hack Day: surfacing research about the Sustainable Development Goals program
This post is about a little dashboard idea that aims at helping policy makers discover research relevant to the ‘zero hunger‘ topic, one of the themes of the Sustainable Development Goals program. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people […]
- Ontospy 1.9.8 released
Ontospy version 1.9.8 has been just released and it contains tons of improvements and new features. Ontospy is a lightweight open-source Python library and command line tool for working with vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages. Over the past month I’ve been working on a new version of Ontospy, which is now available for download […]
- Exploring scholarly publications using DBPedia concepts: an experiment
This post is about a recent prototype I developed, which allows to explore a sample collection of Springer Nature publications using subject tags automatically extracted from DBPedia. DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured content from the information created in various Wikimedia projects. This structured information resembles an open knowledge graph (OKG) which is available for everyone […]
- SN SciGraph: latest website release make it easier to discover related content
The latest release of SN SciGraph Explorer website includes a number of new features that make it easier to navigate the scholarly knowledge graph and discover items of interest. Graphs are essentially composed by two kinds of objects: nodes and edges. Nodes are like the stations in a train map, while edges are the links that […]
- Exploring SciGraph data using JSON-LD, Elastic Search and Kibana
Hello there data lovers! In this post you can find some information on how to download and make some sense of the scholarly dataset recently made available by the Springer Nature SciGraph project, by using the freely available Elasticsearch suite of software. A few weeks ago the SciGraph dataset was released (full disclosure: I’m part […]
- Ontospy v. 1.6.7
A new and improved version of OntoSpy (1.6.7) is available online. OntoSpy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualizing vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages. This update includes support for Python 3, plus various other improvements that make it easier to query semantic web vocabularies using OntoSpy’s […]
- Nature.com Subjects Stream Graph
The nature.com subjects stream graph displays the distribution of content across the subject areas covered by the nature.com portal. This is an experimental interactive visualisation based on a freely available dataset from the nature.com linked data platform, which I’ve been working on in the last few months. The main visualization provides an overview of selected […]
- Another experiment with Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Spent some time hacking over the weekend. And here’s the result: a minimalist interactive version of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a text I’ve worked with already in the past. This time I was intrigued by the simple yet super cool typed.js javascript library, which simulates animated typing. After testing it out a bit […]
- Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?
Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge? Many would say yes. Others are still quite skeptical, or maybe just cautious about it. What seems to be the case though – and this is what this post is about – is that wikipedians are increasingly including references to scientific literature, and when they do it […]
- Italian public spending data: a review
The Italian government recently announced a new portal containing data on public spending: http://soldipubblici.gov.it. This is obviously great news; the website is still in beta though so in what follows I’d like to put forward a few (hopefully constructive) comments and desires for how it could/should be developed further. Incidentally, I recently ran into Ian […]