See the following link for a description of graph databases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database
It seems that such data bases and the benefits they provide for analysis have primarily been used in business, basic science and in examination of social interactions, e.g. social networks. It would be helpful to know about other uses such in the humanities.
Thanks you Deb, I will take a look at these links and post a response as soon as I get thé chance
Hello again Dibakar,
It is helpful to learn of the Switzerland Digital Humanities Project to store related information (earlier UK efforts and the European Digital Humanities Association) as well as its use of RDF graphing. Below is a link to an article describing differences between RDF and Property Graph Databases such as with Neo4j:
https://neo4j.com/blog/rdf-triple-store-vs-labeled-property-graph-difference/
In searching the “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities” publication, there seem to be at least a couple articles that employee graph databases with the second making mention of Neo4j:
https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/27/1/25/1052735?searchresult=1
https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/31/4/898/2669732?searchresult=1
The link to the article about the HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) in Australia is “even sweeter” as it describes how this site provides graph database capabilities to be utilized with its holdings as well as some captivating examples and links to additional information (e.g. in the in the HuNI site ‘About’ section ‘Technologies’ lists those included such as Neo4j). Very cool!
So good to get this information about graph database use.
Thank you once again, Fred
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