Ricgraph - Research in context graph

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. Read more at https://www.ricgraph.eu/collaborations-with-ricgraph.html.
• Explore open science. Read more at https://www.ricgraph.eu/open-science-with-ricgraph.html.
• Enhance research information systems. Read more at https://www.ricgraph.eu/enhancing-with-ricgraph.html.

One of the other strengths of Ricgraph is that anyone with Python knowledge can easily extend it, allowing you to test your own ideas or 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.

Main contributions of Ricgraph

• 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.
• Ricgraph can be tailored for an application area.

Read more about Ricgraph

• For a gentle introduction in Ricgraph, read the reference publication: Rik D.T. Janssen (2024). Ricgraph: A flexible and extensible graph to explore research in context from various systems. SoftwareX, 26(101736). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736.
• The website for Ricgraph can be found at https://www.ricgraph.eu.
• The documentation website for Ricgraph can be found at https://docs.ricgraph.eu.