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ricgraph-2.8/LICENSE ADDED
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+ MIT License
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+ Copyright (c) 2023 Rik D.T. Janssen
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+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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+ of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+ in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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+ to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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+ copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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+ furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
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+ copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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+ IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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ricgraph-2.8/PKG-INFO ADDED
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+ Metadata-Version: 2.2
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+ Name: ricgraph
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+ Version: 2.8
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+ Summary: Ricgraph - Research in context graph
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+ Author: Rik D.T. Janssen
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+ Project-URL: Website, https://www.ricgraph.eu
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+ Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/blob/main/README.md
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+ Project-URL: GitHub, https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/issues
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+ Project-URL: Download, https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/releases
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+ Project-URL: Release Notes, https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/releases
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+ Keywords: Ricgraph,Ricgraph Explorer,Ricgraph REST API,Research in context graph,Graph,Graph database,Data harvesting,Data enrichment,Data linking,Linked data,Knowledge graph,Metadata,Utrecht University
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.9
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Requires-Dist: neo4j>=5.8
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+ Requires-Dist: numpy
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+ Requires-Dist: pandas
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+ Requires-Dist: requests
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+
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+ [![DOI software](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI%20%20software-10.5281/zenodo.7524314-blue)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7524314)
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+ [![DOI reference publication](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI%20reference%20publication-10.1016%2Fj.softx.2024.101736-blue)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736)
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+ [![website](https://img.shields.io/badge/website-www.ricgraph.eu-blue)](https://www.ricgraph.eu)
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+ ![GitHub release date](https://img.shields.io/github/release-date/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)
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+ [![GitHub latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/releases)
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+ ![GitHub commits since latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/latest?color=%234c1)
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+ ![GitHub last commit](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)
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+ [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ricgraph?label=PyPI%20version&color=%234c1)](https://pypi.org/project/ricgraph)
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+ [![PyPI downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/ricgraph?label=PyPI%20downloads&color=%234c1)](https://pypistats.org/packages/ricgraph)
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+ [![Ricgraph container doc](https://img.shields.io/badge/Ricgraph_container_doc-click_here-%234c1)](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/blob/main/docs/ricgraph_containerized.md)
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+ [![Podman container version](https://ghcr-badge.egpl.dev/utrechtuniversity/ricgraph/latest_tag?color=%234c1&label=container+version)](https://github.com/utrechtuniversity/ricgraph/pkgs/container/ricgraph)
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+ [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)](LICENSE)
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+ [![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#active)
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+ [![Technology Readiness Level 7/9 - Release Candidate - Technology ready enough and in initial use by end-users in intended scholarly environments](https://w3id.org/research-technology-readiness-levels/Level7ReleaseCandidate.svg)](https://github.com/CLARIAH/clariah-plus/blob/main/requirements/software-metadata-requirements.md#15--you-should-express-a-technology-readiness-level)
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+ [![FAIR checklist badge](https://fairsoftwarechecklist.net/badge.svg)](https://fairsoftwarechecklist.net/v0.2?f=31&a=32113&i=32110&r=123)
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+
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+ <!---
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+ Note, the lines 'Website' and
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+ 'PyPI downloads' end in two spaces, to force a line break but not a paragraph break.
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+ Similar for others.
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+ We use color=#4c1 (green), that color is used by the 'repo status' badge.
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+ Documentation about the Podman badges can be found here: https://github.com/eggplants/ghcr-badge.
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+ --->
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+
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+ <img alt="Ricgraph logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/refs/heads/main/docs/images/ricgraph_logo.png" height="30">
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+
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+ # Ricgraph - Research in context graph
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+
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+ ## What is Ricgraph?
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+
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+ Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers,
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+ teams, their results,
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+ collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.
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+
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+ Ricgraph can store many types of items into a single graph.
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+ These items can be obtained from various systems and from
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+ multiple organizations. Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about these
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+ items because it infers new relations between items,
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+ relations that are not present in any of the separate source systems.
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+ It is flexible and extensible, and can be
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+ adapted to new application areas.
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+
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+ ### Motivation
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+
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+ Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, is software that is about
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+ relations between items. These items can be collected from various source
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+ systems and from multiple organizations. We
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+ explain how Ricgraph works by applying it to the application area
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+ *research information*. We show the insights that can be
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+ obtained by combining information from various source systems,
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+ insight arising from new relations that are not present
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+ in each separate source system.
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+
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+ *Research information* is about anything related to research: research
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+ results, the persons in a research team, their
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+ collaborations, their skills, projects in which they have
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+ participated, as well as the relations between these entities.
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+ Examples of *research results* are publications, data sets, and software.
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+
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+ Example use cases from the application area research information are:
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+
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+ | Use case | In Ricgraph |
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+ |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | As a journalist, I want to find researchers with a certain skill S and their publications, so that I can interview them for a newspaper article. Example skills can be: *climate change* or *stem cells*. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/main/docs/images/journalist-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+ | As a librarian, I want to enrich my local research information system with research results from person A that are in other systems (in orange, *RIS2*) but not in ours (in green, *RIS1*), so that we have a more complete view of research at our university. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/main/docs/images/librarian-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+ | As a researcher A, I want to find researchers from other universities that have co-authored publications written by the co-authors of my own publications, so that I can read their publications to find out if we share common research interests. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/main/docs/images/researcher-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+
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+
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+ These use cases use different types of information (called *items*):
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+ researchers, skills, publications,
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+ etc. Most often, these types of information are not stored in
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+ one system, so the use cases may be difficult or
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+ time-consuming to answer. However, by using Ricgraph, these
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+ use cases (and many others) are easy to answer, as will be
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+ explained throughout this documentation.
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+
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+ Although this documentation illustrates Ricgraph in the application area
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+ research information, the principle “relations
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+ between items from various source systems” is general,
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+ so Ricgraph can be used in other application areas.
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+
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+ ### Main contributions of Ricgraph
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+
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+ * Ricgraph can store many types of items in a single graph.
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+ * Ricgraph harvests multiple source systems into a single graph.
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+ * Ricgraph Explorer is the exploration tool for Ricgraph.
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+ * Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about items because it infers new relations between items.
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+ * Ricgraph can be tailored for an application area.
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+
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+ ### Read more about Ricgraph
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+
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+ For a gentle introduction in Ricgraph, read the reference publication:
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+ Rik D.T. Janssen (2024). Ricgraph: A flexible and extensible graph to explore research in
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+ context from various systems. *SoftwareX*, 26(101736).
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+ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736.
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+
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+ You might also want to read the documentation in
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+ the [Ricgraph GitHub repository](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph).
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+ To use Ricgraph, installing the [Ricgraph package from PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/ricgraph)
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+ is not sufficient. Please read the
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+ installation instructions in the Ricgraph GitHub repository.
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+ [![DOI software](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI%20%20software-10.5281/zenodo.7524314-blue)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7524314)
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+ [![DOI reference publication](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI%20reference%20publication-10.1016%2Fj.softx.2024.101736-blue)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736)
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+ [![website](https://img.shields.io/badge/website-www.ricgraph.eu-blue)](https://www.ricgraph.eu)
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+ ![GitHub release date](https://img.shields.io/github/release-date/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)
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+ [![GitHub latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/releases)
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+ ![GitHub commits since latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/latest?color=%234c1)
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+ ![GitHub last commit](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)
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+ [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ricgraph?label=PyPI%20version&color=%234c1)](https://pypi.org/project/ricgraph)
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+ [![PyPI downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/ricgraph?label=PyPI%20downloads&color=%234c1)](https://pypistats.org/packages/ricgraph)
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+ [![Ricgraph container doc](https://img.shields.io/badge/Ricgraph_container_doc-click_here-%234c1)](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/blob/main/docs/ricgraph_containerized.md)
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+ [![Podman container version](https://ghcr-badge.egpl.dev/utrechtuniversity/ricgraph/latest_tag?color=%234c1&label=container+version)](https://github.com/utrechtuniversity/ricgraph/pkgs/container/ricgraph)
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+ [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)](LICENSE)
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+ [![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#active)
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+ [![Technology Readiness Level 7/9 - Release Candidate - Technology ready enough and in initial use by end-users in intended scholarly environments](https://w3id.org/research-technology-readiness-levels/Level7ReleaseCandidate.svg)](https://github.com/CLARIAH/clariah-plus/blob/main/requirements/software-metadata-requirements.md#15--you-should-express-a-technology-readiness-level)
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+ [![FAIR checklist badge](https://fairsoftwarechecklist.net/badge.svg)](https://fairsoftwarechecklist.net/v0.2?f=31&a=32113&i=32110&r=123)
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+
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+ <!---
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+ Note, the lines 'Website' and
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+ 'PyPI downloads' end in two spaces, to force a line break but not a paragraph break.
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+ Similar for others.
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+ We use color=#4c1 (green), that color is used by the 'repo status' badge.
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+ Documentation about the Podman badges can be found here: https://github.com/eggplants/ghcr-badge.
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+ --->
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+
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+ <img alt="Ricgraph logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/refs/heads/main/docs/images/ricgraph_logo.png" height="30">
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+
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+ # Ricgraph - Research in context graph
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+
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+ ## What is Ricgraph?
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+
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+ Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers,
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+ teams, their results,
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+ collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.
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+
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+ Ricgraph can store many types of items into a single graph.
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+ These items can be obtained from various systems and from
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+ multiple organizations. Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about these
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+ items because it infers new relations between items,
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+ relations that are not present in any of the separate source systems.
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+ It is flexible and extensible, and can be
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+ adapted to new application areas.
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+
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+ ### Motivation
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+
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+ Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, is software that is about
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+ relations between items. These items can be collected from various source
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+ systems and from multiple organizations. We
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+ explain how Ricgraph works by applying it to the application area
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+ *research information*. We show the insights that can be
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+ obtained by combining information from various source systems,
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+ insight arising from new relations that are not present
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+ in each separate source system.
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+
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+ *Research information* is about anything related to research: research
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+ results, the persons in a research team, their
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+ collaborations, their skills, projects in which they have
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+ participated, as well as the relations between these entities.
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+ Examples of *research results* are publications, data sets, and software.
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+
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+ Example use cases from the application area research information are:
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+
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+ | Use case | In Ricgraph |
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+ |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | As a journalist, I want to find researchers with a certain skill S and their publications, so that I can interview them for a newspaper article. Example skills can be: *climate change* or *stem cells*. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/main/docs/images/journalist-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+ | As a librarian, I want to enrich my local research information system with research results from person A that are in other systems (in orange, *RIS2*) but not in ours (in green, *RIS1*), so that we have a more complete view of research at our university. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/main/docs/images/librarian-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+ | As a researcher A, I want to find researchers from other universities that have co-authored publications written by the co-authors of my own publications, so that I can read their publications to find out if we share common research interests. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/main/docs/images/researcher-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+
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+
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+ These use cases use different types of information (called *items*):
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+ researchers, skills, publications,
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+ etc. Most often, these types of information are not stored in
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+ one system, so the use cases may be difficult or
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+ time-consuming to answer. However, by using Ricgraph, these
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+ use cases (and many others) are easy to answer, as will be
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+ explained throughout this documentation.
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+
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+ Although this documentation illustrates Ricgraph in the application area
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+ research information, the principle “relations
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+ between items from various source systems” is general,
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+ so Ricgraph can be used in other application areas.
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+
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+ ### Main contributions of Ricgraph
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+
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+ * Ricgraph can store many types of items in a single graph.
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+ * Ricgraph harvests multiple source systems into a single graph.
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+ * Ricgraph Explorer is the exploration tool for Ricgraph.
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+ * Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about items because it infers new relations between items.
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+ * Ricgraph can be tailored for an application area.
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+
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+ ### Read more about Ricgraph
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+
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+ For a gentle introduction in Ricgraph, read the reference publication:
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+ Rik D.T. Janssen (2024). Ricgraph: A flexible and extensible graph to explore research in
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+ context from various systems. *SoftwareX*, 26(101736).
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+ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736.
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+
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+ You might also want to read the documentation in
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+ the [Ricgraph GitHub repository](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph).
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+ To use Ricgraph, installing the [Ricgraph package from PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/ricgraph)
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+ is not sufficient. Please read the
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+ installation instructions in the Ricgraph GitHub repository.
ricgraph-2.8/README.md ADDED
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+ [![DOI software](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI%20%20software-10.5281/zenodo.7524314-blue)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7524314)
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+ [![DOI reference publication](https://img.shields.io/badge/DOI%20reference%20publication-10.1016%2Fj.softx.2024.101736-blue)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736)
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+ [![website](https://img.shields.io/badge/website-www.ricgraph.eu-blue)](https://www.ricgraph.eu)
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+ ![GitHub release date](https://img.shields.io/github/release-date/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)
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+ [![GitHub latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/releases)
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+ ![GitHub commits since latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/latest?color=%234c1)
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+ ![GitHub last commit](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)
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+ [![PyPI version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ricgraph?label=PyPI%20version&color=%234c1)](https://pypi.org/project/ricgraph)
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+ [![PyPI downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/ricgraph?label=PyPI%20downloads&color=%234c1)](https://pypistats.org/packages/ricgraph)
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+ [![Ricgraph container doc](https://img.shields.io/badge/Ricgraph_container_doc-click_here-%234c1)](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph/blob/main/docs/ricgraph_containerized.md)
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+ [![Podman container version](https://ghcr-badge.egpl.dev/utrechtuniversity/ricgraph/latest_tag?color=%234c1&label=container+version)](https://github.com/utrechtuniversity/ricgraph/pkgs/container/ricgraph)
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+ [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph?color=%234c1)](LICENSE)
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+ [![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#active)
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+ [![Technology Readiness Level 7/9 - Release Candidate - Technology ready enough and in initial use by end-users in intended scholarly environments](https://w3id.org/research-technology-readiness-levels/Level7ReleaseCandidate.svg)](https://github.com/CLARIAH/clariah-plus/blob/main/requirements/software-metadata-requirements.md#15--you-should-express-a-technology-readiness-level)
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+ [![FAIR checklist badge](https://fairsoftwarechecklist.net/badge.svg)](https://fairsoftwarechecklist.net/v0.2?f=31&a=32113&i=32110&r=123)
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+
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+ <!---
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+ Note, the lines 'Website' and
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+ 'PyPI downloads' end in two spaces, to force a line break but not a paragraph break.
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+ Similar for others.
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+ We use color=#4c1 (green), that color is used by the 'repo status' badge.
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+ Documentation about the Podman badges can be found here: https://github.com/eggplants/ghcr-badge.
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+ --->
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+
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+ <img alt="Ricgraph logo" src="docs/images/ricgraph_logo.png" height="30">
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+
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+ # Ricgraph - Research in context graph
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+
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+ [Table of contents of Ricgraph documentation](docs/ricgraph_toc_documentation.md) and
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+ [Index of Ricgraph documentation](docs/ricgraph_index_documentation.md).
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+
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+ ## What is Ricgraph?
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+
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+ Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, enables the exploration of researchers,
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+ teams, their results,
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+ collaborations, skills, projects, and the relations between these items.
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+
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+ Ricgraph can store many types of items into a single graph.
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+ These items can be obtained from various systems and from
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+ multiple organizations. Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about these
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+ items because it infers new relations between items,
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+ relations that are not present in any of the separate source systems.
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+ It is flexible and extensible, and can be
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+ adapted to new application areas.
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+
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+ Throughout this documentation, we illustrate how Ricgraph works by applying
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+ it to the application area research information.
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+
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+ ### Motivation
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+
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+ Ricgraph, also known as Research in context graph, is software that is about
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+ relations between items. These items can be collected from various source
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+ systems and from multiple organizations. We
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+ explain how Ricgraph works by applying it to the application area
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+ *research information*. We show the insights that can be
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+ obtained by combining information from various source systems,
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+ insight arising from new relations that are not present
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+ in each separate source system.
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+
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+ *Research information* is about anything related to research: research
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+ results, the persons in a research team, their
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+ collaborations, their skills, projects in which they have
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+ participated, as well as the relations between these entities.
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+ Examples of *research results* are publications, data sets, and software.
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+
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+ Example use cases from the application area research information are:
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+
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+ | Use case | In Ricgraph (click to enlarge) |
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+ |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | As a journalist, I want to find researchers with a certain skill S and their publications, so that I can interview them for a newspaper article. Example skills can be: *climate change* or *stem cells*. | <img src="docs/images/journalist-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+ | As a librarian, I want to enrich my local research information system with research results from person A that are in other systems (in orange, *RIS2*) but not in ours (in green, *RIS1*), so that we have a more complete view of research at our university. | <img src="docs/images/librarian-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+ | As a researcher A, I want to find researchers from other universities that have co-authored publications written by the co-authors of my own publications, so that I can read their publications to find out if we share common research interests. | <img src="docs/images/researcher-use-case.jpg" width="700"> |
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+
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+
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+ These use cases use different types of information (called *items*):
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+ researchers, skills, publications,
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+ etc. Most often, these types of information are not stored in
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+ one system, so the use cases may be difficult or
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+ time-consuming to answer. However, by using Ricgraph, these
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+ use cases (and many others) are easy to answer, as will be
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+ explained throughout this documentation.
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+
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+ Although this documentation illustrates Ricgraph in the application area
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+ research information, the principle “relations
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+ between items from various source systems” is general,
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+ so Ricgraph can be used in other application areas.
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+
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+ ### Main contributions of Ricgraph
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+
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+ * Ricgraph can store many types of items in a single graph.
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+ * Ricgraph harvests multiple source systems into a single graph.
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+ * Ricgraph Explorer is the exploration tool for Ricgraph.
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+ * Ricgraph facilitates reasoning about items because it infers new relations between items.
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+ * Ricgraph can be tailored for an application area.
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+
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+ ### How to use Ricgraph (very short)
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+
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+ * [Install and configure Ricgraph](docs/ricgraph_install_configure.md).
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+ * Start harvesting data, see [Ricgraph harvest scripts](docs/ricgraph_harvest_scripts.md).
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+ * Use [Ricgraph Explorer](docs/ricgraph_explorer.md),
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+ the exploration tool for Ricgraph.
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+ * Use the [Ricgraph REST API](docs/ricgraph_restapi.md),
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+ the REST API for Ricgraph.
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+ * Optional: modify code to fit Ricgraph to your specific use case.
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+
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+ For more details, read the remainder of this documentation.
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+
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+ ### Read more about Ricgraph
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+
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+ For a gentle introduction in Ricgraph, read the reference publication:
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+ Rik D.T. Janssen (2024). Ricgraph: A flexible and extensible graph to explore research in
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+ context from various systems. *SoftwareX*, 26(101736).
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+ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736.
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+
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+ For a further introduction, you might want to read these two presentations:
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+ * A general presentation about Ricgraph, presenting Ricgraph in a visual manner:
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+ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12634234.
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+ * A presentation explaining how to enrich
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+ the [Research Information System Pure](https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure)
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+ (and other source systems) using Ricgraph
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+ and [BackToPure](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/BackToPure):
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+ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12634658.
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+ This presentation explains that after harvesting several Pure systems
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+ (from different institutions) and other source systems,
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+ such as [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org),
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+ one can enrich its own Pure _A_ by using information in other source
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+ systems, not present in one's own Pure _A_.
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+
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+ To learn more about Ricgraph,
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+ [read why Ricgraph has been developed](#why-ricgraph).
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+ This is followed by
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+ [Ricgraph in bullet points](#ricgraph-in-bullet-points). There is also
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+ [a section with next steps you might want to take](#next-steps),
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+ including [further information about
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+ Ricgraph](#further-information-about-ricgraph),
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+ an [explanation how to install Ricgraph and harvest
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+ data](#steps-to-take-if-you-would-like-to-install-ricgraph-and-harvest-data),
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+ an [explanation how to use Ricgraph](#steps-to-take-if-you-would-like-to-use-ricgraph),
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+ and [information about extending Ricgraph](#read-this-in-case-you-would-like-to-extend-ricgraph).
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+ Of course there are
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+ [videos we have made to demonstrate Ricgraph](docs/ricgraph_example_use_videos.md),
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+ and there is an overview of the
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+ [publications](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-publications),
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+ [presentations](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-presentations),
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+ [newsletters](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-newsletters)
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+ (to subscribe, go to [Ricgraph Contact](#contact)),
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+ [use](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-use), and
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+ [mentions](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-mentions)
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+ of Ricgraph.
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+
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+ You can also use the [Table of contents of Ricgraph documentation](docs/ricgraph_toc_documentation.md)
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+ or the [Index of Ricgraph documentation](docs/ricgraph_index_documentation.md).
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+
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+ ## Why Ricgraph?
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+
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+ Ricgraph can answer questions like:
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+ * Which researcher has contributed to which publication, dataset, software package, project, etc.?
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+ * Given e.g. a dataset, software package, or project, who has contributed to it?
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+ * What identifiers does a researcher have (e.g.
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+ [ORCID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID),
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+ [ISNI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Name_Identifier),
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+ organization employee ID, email address)?
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+ * What skills does a researcher have?
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+ * Show a network of researchers who have worked together?
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+ * Which organizations have worked together?
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+
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+ Also, more elaborate information can be found using Ricgraph and
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+ [Ricgraph Explorer](docs/ricgraph_explorer.md), the
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+ exploration tool for Ricgraph:
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+ * You can find information about persons or their results in a (sub-)organization
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+ (unit, department, faculty, university).
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+ For example, you can find out what data sets or software are produced in your faculty.
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+ Or the skills of all persons in your department. Of course this is only possible in case you have harvested them.
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+ * You can find out with whom a person shares research output types.
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+ For example, you can find out with whom someone shares software or data sets.
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+ * You can get tables showing how you can enrich a source system based on other systems you have harvested.
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+ For example, suppose you have harvested both
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+ [Research Information System Pure](https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure) and
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+ [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org), using this feature you can find out
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+ which publications in OpenAlex are not in Pure. You might want to add those to Pure.
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+ * You can get a table that shows the overlap in harvests from different source systems.
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+ For example, after a query to show all ORCID nodes,
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+ the table summarizes the number of ORCID nodes which were
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+ only found in one source, and which were found in multiple sources.
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+ Another table gives a detailed overview how many
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+ nodes originate from which different source systems. Then, you can drill down by
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+ clicking on a number in one of these
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+ two tables to find the nodes corresponding to that number.
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+
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+ With Ricgraph, you can get metadata from objects from any source system you’d like.
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+ You run the harvest script for that
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+ system, and data will be imported in Ricgraph and will be
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+ combined automatically with data which is already there.
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+ Ricgraph provides harvest scripts for the systems mentioned above.
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+ Scripts for other sources can be written easily.
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+
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+ In the remainder of this text, Ricgraph is described in the use case of
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+ showing people, organizations and research outputs in relation to each other
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+ in a university context.
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+
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+ ## Examples
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+
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+ See the figures below for example graphs that show how Ricgraph works.
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+ Click a figure to enlarge.
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+
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+ | one person with several research outputs | symbols for type of object | colors for source system |
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+ |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | <img src="docs/images/one-person-with-research-outputs.jpg" height="170"> | <img src="docs/images/symbols.jpg" height="170"> | <img src="docs/images/colors-vertical.jpg" height="170"> |
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+
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+
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+ This figure shows one person *A* using a
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+ [*person-root* node, a node which "represents" a person](docs/ricgraph_details.md#person-root-node-in-ricgraph)
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+ as it is called
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+ in Ricgraph.
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+ This person has contributed to three articles, two data sets and one software package.
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+ Two articles and one data set are from
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+ the [Research Information System Pure](https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure)
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+ (their color is green),
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+ one data set is from
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+ the data repository [Yoda](https://www.uu.nl/en/research/yoda)
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+ (in orange),
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+ one article is from [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org) (in purple),
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+ and
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+ the software package is from the
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+ [Research Software Directory](https://research-software-directory.org) (in blue).
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+
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+
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+ | several persons with several research outputs | one person with several identifiers and research outputs |
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+ |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
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+ | <img src="docs/images/several-persons-with-research-outputs.jpg" height="200"> | <img src="docs/images/identifiers-and-outputs.jpg" height="200"> |
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+
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+ The left part of this figure shows several persons having several research outputs
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+ (the symbols) and
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+ how these are related (i.e. which person contributed to which research output).
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+ It also shows from which source system these research outputs have originated
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+ (using different colors).
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+ The right part shows one person having several identifiers and several research outputs.
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+ This person has two different ORCIDs, one ISNI, one SCOPUS_AUTHOR_ID, and two FULL_NAMEs (which differ
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+ in spelling). These identifiers have also been obtained from different source systems, as their color indicates.
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+
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+ More examples can be found in [Ricgraph details](docs/ricgraph_details.md).
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+
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+ ## Ricgraph in bullet points
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+
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+ * The philosophy of Ricgraph is that it stores metadata, not the objects the metadata
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+ refer to. To access an object, a node has a link to that object in
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+ the system it was obtained from.
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+ * We have chosen a
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+ graph as a datastructure, since it is a logical and efficient
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+ method to access objects
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+ which are close to objects they have a relation to. For example,
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+ starting with a person, its research outputs are only one
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+ step away by following one edge, and other contributors to that research output are
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+ again one step (edge) away.
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+ * Ricgraph can be used to store, manipulate and read metadata of any object that
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+ has a relation to another object,
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+ as long as every object can be "represented" by at least a *name* and a *value*.
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+ In Ricgraph, one node represents one object, and an edge represents the
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+ relation between two objects.
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+ * Ricgraph and Ricgraph Explorer are written in Python. You can use two different
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+ [graph database backends](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database):
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+ * [Neo4j](https://neo4j.com) (either Neo4j Desktop or Neo4j Community Edition);
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+ * [Memgraph](https://memgraph.com).
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+ * Metadata of an object are stored as "properties"
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+ in a node, i.e. as information associated with a node.
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+ For example, a node may store two properties, *name = PET* and
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+ *value = cat*. Another node may store *name = FULL_NAME* and *value = John Doe*.
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+ Then the edge between those two nodes means that the person with FULL_NAME John Doe
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+ has a PET which is a cat. Ricgraph can store any number of properties in a node.
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+ * The objective of Ricgraph is to get metadata from
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+ objects from a source system in a process called "harvesting".
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+ That means that e.g. persons and publications
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+ can be harvested from one system, data sets from another system, and software from a third system.
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+ Everything found will be combined into one graph.
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+ * Ricgraph can harvest from many sources, and you can write your own
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+ harvesting scripts. Example scripts are included to
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+ harvest from the [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org),
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+ the [Research Information System Pure](https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure),
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+ the data repository [Yoda](https://www.uu.nl/en/research/yoda),
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+ the [Research Software Directory](https://research-software-directory.org), and
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+ for the [Utrecht University staff pages](https://www.uu.nl/staff/search).
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+ * Ricgraph can be used as an ID resolver. It can, given an identifier of a person,
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+ easily find other identifiers of that person. When new identifiers are found when
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+ harvesting from new systems,
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+ they will be added automatically.
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+ * Ricgraph can check the consistency of information harvested. For example, ORCIDs and ISNIs
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+ are supposed to refer to one person, so every node representing such an identifier should have
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+ only one edge. This can be checked easily.
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+ An example script is included.
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+ * Ricgraph can enrich information in its own graph by using information from other systems.
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+ For example,
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+ if a person has an ORCID, but not a Scopus Author ID,
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+ [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org) can be used
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+ to find the missing Scopus Author ID. An example script is included.
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+ * Ricgraph can enrich a source system based on information that is present in one
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+ source system, but not in another source system. See the use case above.
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+
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+ ## Next steps
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+
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+ [Table of contents of Ricgraph documentation](docs/ricgraph_toc_documentation.md) and
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+ [Index of Ricgraph documentation](docs/ricgraph_index_documentation.md).
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+
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+ ### Further information about Ricgraph
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+ * For a gentle introduction in Ricgraph, read the reference publication:
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+ Rik D.T. Janssen (2024). Ricgraph: A flexible and extensible graph to explore research in
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+ context from various systems. *SoftwareX*, 26(101736).
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+ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2024.101736.
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+ * For a further introduction, you might want to read these two presentations:
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+ * A general presentation about Ricgraph, presenting Ricgraph in a visual manner:
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+ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12634234.
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+ * A presentation explaining how to enrich
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+ the [Research Information System Pure](https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/pure)
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+ (and other source systems) using Ricgraph
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+ and [BackToPure](https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/BackToPure):
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+ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12634658.
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+ This presentation explains that after harvesting several Pure systems
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+ (from different institutions) and other source systems,
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+ such as [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org),
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+ one can enrich its own Pure _A_ by using information in other source
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+ systems, not present in one's own Pure _A_.
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+
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+ * Read more about
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+ [publications](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-publications),
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+ [presentations](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-presentations),
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+ [newsletters](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-newsletters)
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+ (to subscribe, go to [Ricgraph Contact](#contact)),
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+ [use](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-use), and
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+ [mentions](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-mentions)
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+ of Ricgraph.
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+ * Look at the [videos we have made to demonstrate Ricgraph](docs/ricgraph_example_use_videos.md).
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+ * Read more about [Ricgraph details](docs/ricgraph_details.md),
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+ such as example graphs, person identifiers and the *person-root* node.
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+ * You might want to [compare Ricgraph to other systems](docs/ricgraph_comparison.md).
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+
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+ ### Steps to take if you would like to install Ricgraph and harvest data
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+ * [Install and configure Ricgraph](docs/ricgraph_install_configure.md).
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+ * Start harvesting data, see [Ricgraph harvest scripts](docs/ricgraph_harvest_scripts.md),
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+ e.g. by doing a harvest for Utrecht University data sets and
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+ software.
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+ You will observe that the information from two sources is neatly combined into one graph.
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+ * Unfortunately, there is a bug, see [known bugs](docs/ricgraph_known_bugs.md).
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+ This bug may occur
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+ if you start a harvest script, and as first step in the script you want to empty Ricgraph.
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+ In that case, a Python error might occur while emptying Ricgraph. Follow the link
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+ to read more and find out how to repair that.
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+
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+ ### Steps to take if you would like to use Ricgraph
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+ * First, install Ricgraph (see above).
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+ * Use [Ricgraph Explorer](docs/ricgraph_explorer.md),
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+ the exploration tool for Ricgraph.
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+ * Use the [Ricgraph REST API](docs/ricgraph_restapi.md),
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+ the REST API for Ricgraph.
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+ * Alternatively, you might want to read
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+ [Query and visualize Ricgraph](docs/ricgraph_query_visualize.md).
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+
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+ ### Read this in case you would like to extend Ricgraph
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+ * Start writing scripts, see [Ricgraph script writing](docs/ricgraph_script_writing.md).
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+ * Of course, there is [future work to do](docs/ricgraph_future_work.md). Please let me know
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+ if you'd like to help.
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+
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+ ### Ricgraph website
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+ Ricgraph has a main Ricgraph website on www.ricgraph.eu.
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+ Alternative sites are www.ricgraph.nl and www.ricgraph.com.
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+ The sources for this website are on GitHub in repository
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+ https://github.com/UtrechtUniversity/ricgraph-website.
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+
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+ ## Contact
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+ Ricgraph has been created and is being maintained by
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+ [Rik D.T. Janssen from Utrecht University in the Netherlands](https://www.uu.nl/staff/DTJanssen)
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+ [(ORCID 0000-0001-9510-0802)](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9510-0802).
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+ You can contact him for presentations, demos and workshops.
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+
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+ About three to four times a year we send out a
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+ newsletter.
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+ [Please click here to subscribe to it. Your email program will open with
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+ a subscribe email text. Please complete it
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+ by filling in your name and email address](mailto:r.d.t.janssen@uu.nl?subject=Please%20add%20me%20to%20the%20Ricgraph%20newsletter%20email%20list&body=Hi%20Rik%2C%0D%0A%0D%0ACan%20you%20please%20add%20me%20to%20your%20Ricgraph%20newsletter%20email%20list%3F%20Thanks!%0D%0A%0D%0ABest%20regards%2C%0D%0A%0D%0A%5Bplease%20replace%20with%20your%20name%5D%0D%0A%5Bplease%20replace%20with%20your%20email%20address%5D).
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+ We also have a
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+ [newsletter archive](docs/ricgraph_pubs_pres_news_use_ment.md#ricgraph-newsletters).
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+
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+ If you like Ricgraph, please give it a GitHub Star by clicking on the top right
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+ *Star* button on this page. If you have any suggestions or improvements,
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+ please let me know by creating a GitHub *Issue* at the top left of this page.