InContext

RDF Visualiser for Enhanced Publications — originally built for SURFfoundation (2011–2013).

What are Enhanced Publications?

An Enhanced Publication is a scholarly article linked to its underlying research data, images, datasets, and other resources — forming a compound object where every part is addressable by URI and the relations between parts are recorded in RDF. The standard that makes this possible is OAI-ORE (Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange). InContext was built as part of the SURFshare programme to make those linked objects explorable directly in a browser, without any server-side software — a purely client-side JavaScript solution that was novel at the time.

About this demo

The graph below shows an Enhanced Publication from the ESCAPE project at the University of Twente. It describes the Physics of Fluids research group and its connected publications, datasets, people, and events — all described as RDF and navigable by clicking. Click any node to move it to the centre and explore its relations. The browser URL updates as you navigate, so every object has a shareable deep-link.

Learn more

van Godtsenhoven, K., Karstensen Elbæk, M., Schmeltz Pedersen, G., Sierman, B., Bijsterbosch, M., Hochstenbach, P., Russell, R., & van der Feesten, M. (2009). Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology: Survey on Technology. DRIVER II / SURFfoundation / Amsterdam University Press. Open access: hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1942496

▼ Interactive visualiser — click any node to navigate