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2026
What the data doesn't show: presenting at CLACSO's funding flows project
I was in Buenos Aires last week for the closing event of Tracking research funding flows in the Global South, a project run by CLACSO in partnership with CWTS/Leiden University and IDRC.
The Shifting Landscape of Research Analytics: From Data Access to Trustworthy Insights
I watched the "Vibe Coding with Open Alex" video recently, and it's been rattling around in my head since.
2024
Unpacking OpenAlex topics classification
In this post I have taken a closer look at the classification of scientific disciplines in OpenAlex, a recently developed database of scientific works.
2023
Springer Nature retired SciGraph earlier this month.
2022
A semi-automated conference assistant
A couple of weeks ago I went to the excellent Move Or Perish—Scientific Trajectories, Inclusion, And Inequality, And Their Consequences For Transformative Science workshop in Vienna.
2020
Calculating Industry Collaborations via GRID
A new tutorial demonstrating how to extract and visualize data about industry collaborations by combining Dimensions data with GRID.
2019
Introducing DimCli: a Python CLI for the Dimensions API
For the last couple of months I've been working on a new open source Python project called DimCli.
SN SciGraph Latest Release: Patents, Clinical Trials and many new features
We are pleased to announce the third release of Springer Nature SciGraph Linked Open Data.
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.
2018
Exploring scholarly publications using DBPedia concepts: an experiment
This post is about a recent prototype I developed, which allows exploration of a sample collection of Springer Nature publications using subject tags automatically extracted from DBPedia.
SN SciGraph: more related objects links increase discoverability of content
The latest release of SN SciGraph Explorer includes a number of new features that make it easier to navigate the scholarly knowledge graph and discover items of interest.
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.
SN SciGraph is part of the Linked Open Data Cloud 2018
The latest Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud has recently been made available by the Insight Centre for Data Analytics.
Interesting read: 'SciSci' i.e. the science of science
Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory.
2017
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!
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.
2016
Leipzig Semantics 2016 conference
A few weeks ago, I attended the SEMANTiCS conference in Leipzig, so here's a short report about the event.
On November 1st, we were invited to present the SciGraph project at the London ODI Summit, the annual event organized by the Open Data Institute to review and discuss the social and economic impact of open data in both the public and commercial sectors.
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.
2015
Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?
Is Wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?
Recent projects from CrossRef.org
We spent the day with the CrossRef team in Oxford last week, talking about our recent work in the linked data space (see the nature ontologies portal) and their recent initiatives in the scholarly publishing area.
A sneak peek at Nature.com articles' archive
We're getting closer to releasing the full set of metadata covering over one million articles published by Nature Publishing Group since 1845.
Nature.com ontologies portal available online
The Nature ontologies portal is a new section of the nature.com site that describes our involvement with semantic technologies and makes available to the wider public several models and datasets as RDF linked data.
Notes from the Force11 annual conference
I attended the Force11 conference in Oxford over the last couple of days (the conference was previously called 'Beyond the PDF').
2014
ISWC14 paper: a hybrid semantic publishing architecture combining XML and RDF
I'm posting here a short summary of the paper I presented at the last International Semantic Web conference in Riva del Garda (ISWC14) together with my colleague Tony Hammond.
Nature.com subject pages available online!
Subject pages are pages that aggregate content from across nature.com based on the tagging of that content by NPG subject ontology terms.
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