SciGraph

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SciGraph
Type of site
 Search engine
Created by Springer Nature
LaunchedMarch 2017 (2017-03)

SciGraph was a search engine tool developed by Springer Nature, the former URL was https://scigraph.springernature.com/explorer. The technology, which was considered a Linked Open Data (LOD) platform, [1] collects information that covers the research landscape, which includes research projects, publications, conferences, funding agencies, and others. [2] Key features of the platform include the detailed semantic description of the relationship of information and the visualization of the scholarly domain.

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Development

The development of SciGraph began with an initiative to create a platform that will host Springer Nature's entire publication archive, which cover texts published as early as 1815. [3] The number of these resources is reported to be about 13 million. [3] The technology behind the platform was built on earlier Springer Nature projects developed for the purpose of collecting information on the research landscape. [4] The first SciGraph data set was published in February 2017. [4] The platform was launched in March 2017 and significantly expanded with the addition of publications of key partners. [5] The datasets span a broad range of topics, which include computer science, medicine, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, and astronomy, among others. [6] The developers also plan to include citations, patents, and clinical trials in the future. [7]

Technology

SciGraph constitutes 1.5 to 2 billion triples where a triple is formatted as "subject-predicate-object" and could link any subject or concept through a predicate (verb) to another object, demonstrating the type of relationship that exists between them. [8] Its graph structure is used by other academic search engines such as Semantic Scholar. [9]

SciGraph collects data from Springer Nature and its partners from the scholarly domain as well as funders, research projects, conferences, affiliations, and publications. [10] The collected information serves as rich semantic description of how information is related and it also provides a visualization of the scholarly domain. [11] The platform has been considered the only large-scale dataset that reconciles authors' affiliations through the disambiguation and linking with external authoritative datasets according to institutions. [6]

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  3. 1 2 "Springer Nature Uses LOD to Create a Rich Database for Scientists to Work Together". Ontotext. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
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