Data project · Research theme

Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Research

Research and engineering work on scientific knowledge graphs, ontology evolution, semantic alignment, RDF data, and interoperable metadata.

Scientific and semantic web systems often describe the same research objects with different taxonomies, labels, and levels of detail. That makes it difficult to compare annotations, reproduce analyses, and build dependable tools on top of research metadata.

Context

My knowledge graph work focuses on scientific metadata, ontology evolution, and semantic alignment. It connects several public research threads already represented on this site: comparing annotations across scientific knowledge graphs, assessing category overlap between OpenAlex and OpenAIRE, and building ontology versioning infrastructure with DBpedia.

My role

I contribute as a researcher and engineer, combining data analysis, semantic web modeling, Python tooling, and research writing. The work includes preparing datasets, comparing schemas, writing reproducible analysis code, and explaining where automated and manual annotations diverge.

Approach

  • Model research metadata as graph-shaped data rather than isolated records.
  • Compare taxonomies and category systems across scientific knowledge graphs.
  • Use RDF, SPARQL, and Python to inspect annotations and surface overlap or inconsistency.
  • Connect ontology versioning and access reliability to reproducible semantic web infrastructure.

Lessons

Knowledge graph quality is not only a modeling problem. It also depends on provenance, category design, tooling, versioning, and the ability to explain why two systems annotate the same entity differently.

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