blog  Unpacking OpenAlex topics classification.

Sep 2024

In this post I have taken a closer look at the classification of scientific disciplines in OpenAlex, a recently developed database of scientific works. The topics classification has been entirely generated computationally using a mix of citation clustering techniques and LLM-based labeling. The results, although not always so precise, are definitely worth exploring further.

blog  SciGraph 2017-2023.

Feb 2023

Springer Nature retired SciGraph earlier this month. I have been the data architect and then technical lead for this project, so this is post is just a reminder of the great things we did in it. Also, a little rant about the things that weren't that great...

blog  SciGraph publishes 1 billion facts as Linked Open Data.

Nov 2017

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!

blog  Leipzig Semantics 2016 conference.

Oct 2016

A few weeks ago I attended the Semantics conference in Leipzig, so here's a short report about the event.

blog  Open Knowledge Festival – Helsinki, 18-22 September 2012.

Sep 2012

I'm at the OKFestival this week. Tons of inspiring talks. I'm writing this post incrementally cause I've got lots of notes floating around.. so sorry for the mess!