Visualize Relationships in Authority Datasets
Visualize Relationships in MACS with Neo4j
Raw MACS data:
Transforming data.
Visualizing MACS data with Neo4j:
Visualization showing 300 respectively 1500 relationships:
Visualization showing 3000 relationships. For an exploration of the relations you find a high-res picture here graph_3000_relations.png (10.3MB)
Please show me the shortest path between “Rechtslehre” und “Ernährung”:
Some figures
- original MACS dataset: 36.3MB
- 'wrangled' MACS dataset: 171MB
- 344134 nodes in the dataset
- some of our laptops have difficulties to handle visualization of more than 4000 nodes :(
Visualize Relationships in GND
content follows
Datasets
- MACS - Multilingual Access to Subjects http://www.dnb.de/DE/Wir/Kooperation/MACS/macs_node.html
- GND - Gemeinsame Normdatei http://www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html
Process
- get data
- transform data (e.g. with “Metafactor”)
- load data in graph database (e.g. “Neo4j”)
*its not as easy as it sounds
Team
- Günter Hipler
- Silvia Witzig
- Sebastian Schüpbach
- Sonja Gasser
- Jacqueline Martinelli