- ARCHIVE / Semantic Web
- SN SciGraph Latest Release: Patents, Clinical Trials and many new features
We are pleased to announce the third release of SN SciGraph Linked Open Data. SN SciGraph is Springer Nature’s Linked Data platform that collates information from across the research landscape, i.e. the things, documents, people, places and relations of importance to the science and scholarly domain. This release includes a complete refactoring of the SN […]
- 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 […]
- PySciGraph: simple API for accessing SN SciGraph content
PySciGraph is a small open source Python library that makes it easier to access data from Springer Nature SciGraph. It is available on Pypi and Github. I created it mainly because I wanted to be able to quickly check from the command line whether an object exists in SN SciGraph, or what metadata it returns. […]
- SN SciGraph is part of the Linked Open Data Cloud 2018
The latest Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud has been recently made available by the Insights Centre for Data Analytics. The LOD cloud is a visual representation of the datasets (and the links among them) that have been published according to the Linked Data principles – a web-friendly methodology for data sharing that encourages open schemas and data reuse. We’ve very glad to […]
- SciGraph publishes 1 billion facts as Linked Open Data
Last Thursday we reached a major milestone for the SciGraph project: nearly 1 billion facts (= RDF statements) have been released as Linked Open Data, most of it under a CC-BY license! This data release follows and improves on the previous data release (February 2017) which included metadata for all journal articles published in the […]
- 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.1.7.4
A new version of OntoSpy (1.7.4) is available online. OntoSpy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualising vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages. This version includes a hugely improved API for creating nice-looking HTML or Markdown documentation for an ontology, which takes advantage of frameworks like Bootstrap […]
- Leipzig Semantics 2016 conference
A few weeks ago I attended the Semantics conference in Leipzig, so here’s a short report about the event. SEMANTiCS 2016 (#semanticsconf) continues a long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world to present best practices, panels, papers and posters to discuss semantic systems in birds-of-a-feather sessions and informal settings. What I really […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
