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Documentation Ricgraph - Research in context graph
1 What is Ricgraph?
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.
Throughout this documentation, we illustrate how Ricgraph works by applying it to the application area research information.
2 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. |
3 What to find on the Documentation website for Ricgraph?
This documentation website offers quite a bit of information about Ricgraph. In the yellow sidebar you can find the various options. Basically, you can read the Ricgraph tutorial, or browse through the full documentation:
- Ricgraph tutorial:
- Read the tutorial on this webpage.
- Read the tutorial as pdf.
- Full documentation:
- Start reading at the Ricgraph README.
- Choose something from the documentation tree in the yellow sidebar.
- Use the search box.
- Of course, every webpage has links that allow you to go to other sections or webpages.
- Read the full documentation as pdf. This pdf is the concatenation of all Ricgraph documentation pages in one pdf.
This website has been generated from the Ricgraph GitHub documentation.
4 Contact
Ricgraph has been created and is being maintained by Rik D.T. Janssen from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. You can find contact details at his Utrecht University employee page. He also has an ORCID profile on ORCID 0000-0001-9510-0802. You can contact him for presentations, demos and workshops.
He is also very interested in working together on projects involving Ricgraph. Ricgraph is a flexible platform that brings together information from multiple systems into a single graph. It allows users to analyze this information and explore how it relates to other types of information. We could work together on use cases applying Ricgraph to research information, such as exploring collaborations or analyzing how people or organizations contribute to research results. We could also explore entirely different domains. Any application that involves representing and analyzing interconnected information as nodes and relations in a graph, regardless of the field, is of interest.