What is Ricgraph?
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Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers, teams, their results, collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.
Ricgraph can store many types of items into a single graph. These items can be obtained from various systems and from multiple organizations. Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about these items because it infers new relations between items, relations that are not present in any of the separate source systems. It is flexible and extensible, and can be adapted to new application areas.
Why Ricgraph is unique
Ricgraph is unique because it allows you to:
- Explore collaborations between (sub-)organizations with Ricgraph.
- Explore Open science with Ricgraph.
- Enhance research information systems with Ricgraph.
The nice thing about Ricgraph is that anyone with Python knowledge can easily extend it, so you can use Ricgraph to test your own ideas or to create your own applications.
You can use Ricgraph either as a standalone tool, or as a component that provides a graph based data structure with a number of handy tools. Ricgraph has been developed for the application area research information. It can be used for other application areas that require relations between items from various source systems.
Read more about use cases and example research questions.
Ricgraph videos
You may want to watch the following videos about Ricgraph. The left one is a short video, only including the Ricgraph use cases. The right one is a more extensive one (also including the use cases).
| Ricgraph use cases video (1m30s) | Ricgraph introduction video including use cases (2m28s) |
| Click to play or download the Ricgraph use cases video. | Click to play or download the Ricgraph introduction video. |
Research information
Ricgraph is software that is about relations between items. These items can be collected from various source systems and from multiple organizations. Throughout this website, we explain how Ricgraph works by applying it to the application area research information. We show the insights that can be obtained by combining information from various source systems, insight arising from new relations that are not present in each separate source system.
Research information is about anything related to research: research results, the persons in a research team, their collaborations, their skills, projects in which they have participated, as well as the relations between these entities. Examples of research results are publications, data sets, and software. Persons can have various identifiers, such as ORCIDs, ISNIs, organization employee IDs, and/or email addresses. All of these can be stored and explored in Ricgraph.
Main contributions of Ricgraph
- You can explore collaborations between (sub-)organizations with Ricgraph.
- You can explore the open science landscape with Ricgraph.
- You can enhance research information systems with Ricgraph.
- Read more about use cases and example research questions.
- Ricgraph can store many types of items in a single graph.
- Ricgraph harvests multiple source systems into a single graph.
- Ricgraph Explorer is the exploration tool for Ricgraph.
- Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about items because it infers new relations between items.
- You can extend Ricgraph.
Next steps
Read about explore collaborations between (sub-)organizations with Ricgraph. Go to the Contact page.
