nodegoat Workshop series on Linked Data organised by the COST Action NEP4DISSENT

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LAB1100 is organising the workshop series ‘Linking your Historical Sources to Open Data’ together with the COST Action NEP4DISSENT. These workshops will help researchers to connect their research data to existing Linked Open Data resources. These connections will ensure that research data remains interoperable and allow for the ingestion of various relevant Linked Open Data resources.

The workshops will take place on 13-09-2021 and 20-09-2021. All sessions take place between 14:00 and 17:00 CEST. We will be using Zoom and will record the sessions so you can re-watch them. The sessions will be hosted by Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels of LAB1100 and Jessie Labov of the Institute of Literary Studies, Humanities Research Center, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, representing the NEP4DISSENT network

You can register for the workshops via this link.

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Data and Dialogue: Retrieval-Augmented Generation in nodegoat

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We have extended nodegoat in order to be able to communicate with large language models (LLMs). Conceptually this allows users of nodegoat to prompt their structured data. Technically this means nodegoat users are able to create vector embeddings for their objects and use these embeddings to perform retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) processes in nodegoat.

This development connects three of nodegoat’s main functionalities into a dynamic workflow:  Linked Data Resources, the new vector store (nodegoat documentation: Object Descriptions, see ‘vector’), and Filtering. The steps to take are as follows:

Vector Embedding

The first step is to use one or multiple Reversed Collection templates to determine the textual content for each Object. This step transforms any dataset stored as structured data into a textual representation that can be used as input value for the generation of a vector embedding. This allows the user to select only those elements that are relevant for the process.

A Reversed Collection using a template (left) to collect structured data into full text (right).

Next, the textual representation of each Object is sent to an LLM in order to create an embedding for each Object. The communication between nodegoat and an LLM is achieved by making use of Linked Data Resources and Ingestion Processes.[....]

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Upcoming nodegoat workshops

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In the next couple of months we will be running these events at various locations throughout Europe. Find the latest information about this here: https://nodegoat.net/workshop

  • 05-02-2026: nodegoat Workshop at the University of Basel organised by the Research and Infrastructure Support team and the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities.
  • 19-02-2026: nodegoat Workshop at the University of Jena.
  • 25-03-2026: Workshop: Einführung in nodegoat at the University of Bonn.
  • 16-04-2026: nodegoat Workshop at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana.
  • 24-04-2026: nodegoat Workshop at KU Leuven, organised by CLARIAH-VL.
  • 10-07-2026: nodegoat Curious: Building a Custom Relational Database for Your Research at the Digital Medieval Studies Institute, IMC Leeds.
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