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  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  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 Data Summit 2016.

Oct 2016

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.