blog  Exploring SciGraph data using JSON-LD, Elastic Search and Kibana.

Apr 2017

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.

blog  Installing ClioPatria triplestore on mac os.

Oct 2014

ClioPatria is a "SWI-Prolog application that integrates SWI-Prolog's libraries for RDF and HTTP services into a ready-to-use (semantic) web server". It is actively developed by the folks at the VU University of Amsterdam and is freely available online.

blog  Installing GraphDB (aka OWLIM) triplestore on mac os.

Oct 2014

GraphDB (formerly called OWLIM) is an RDF triplestore which is used - among others - by large organizations like the BBC and the British Museum. I've recently installed the LITE release of this graph database on my Mac, so what follows is a simple write-up of the steps that worked for me.

blog  An introduction to Neo4j.

Apr 2013

Neo4j is a graph database that has been rapidly accumulating success stories, especially in areas such as social applications, recommendation engines, fraud detection, resource authorization, network and data center management, and much more. Here's an interesting introductory lecture by Ian Robinson at JavaZone 2013.