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.[....]

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.

Every nodegoat API is now described by an OpenAPI Description (OAD). A .yaml file is automatically generated based on the current configuration of any project specific API. This machine-readable document describes all available endpoints for the selected project.

See the blog post on nodegoat.net for a full description of this new feature.

The Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften organises a nodegoat workshop on Thursday 20 March between 09.30 and 17.00 in Vienna. You can learn more about the event and registration process here.

Thanks to Nirvana Silnovic for organising this event.

Two opportunities to learn more about using nodegoat for your research projects! [....]

On Monday 8 July 2024 we gave our 100th nodegoat workshop! We reached this milestone when we ran the workshop 'Historical Network Analysis with nodegoat' during the Historical Network Research Conference at the University of Lausanne.

These workshops brought us to 54 cities, 24 countries, and 3 continents. See the full list on the nodegoat Workshop page.[....]

Publication of the 'Imagology' project of Joep Leerssen, see this page for more info and a public user interface

Publish your project with the new data publication module. nodegoat users can now select any project to generate a data publication that is web-accessible and downloadable as a ZIP-file. By generating a new publication a Project's data model and all of its data are published and archived. The publication remains accessible also when new publications are generated at a later stage. [....]

On Wednesday 11 October 2023 we will run a nodegoat Workshop at Stockholm University. The workshop will take place between 10.00 and 16.30 at Bergsmannen, Stockholm University. This is an in-person event and registration is required. Registration deadline is 27 September. [....]

One person (center) studying at three universities showing two possible fellow students.

During the conference 'Graphs and Networks in the fourth dimension – time and temporality as categories of connectedness', jointly organised by the Historical Network Research community and Graphs & Networks in the Humanities, we presented a new nodegoat feature: 'temporally-aware dynamic network analysis'. [....]

LAB1100 has provided the Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) with a nodegoat Grow installation to service two multi-year research projects. The project 'Die Produktion von Weltwissen im Umbruch' uses nodegoat to analyse the globalisation of knowledge production by mapping the development of Area Studies and Global Studies in the German context over the past 15 years. The project 'African non-military conflict intervention practices' uses nodegoat to build a comprehensive database of non-military interventions since 2004 by the African Union and by Regional Economic Communities.[....]

On February 16 LAB1100 ran a nodegoat workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) in Munich.[....]

This year we celebrate our 10 year anniversary as LAB1100. We are grateful for all the exciting projects that we have been involved in, and for being able to collaborate with so many inspiring people. We look forward to continuing to work together with scholars from all over the world to deliver trailblazing research software.[....]

Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels will deliver a public lecture at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris on Friday December 9.[....]

From August 22 until August 24 2022 LAB1100 ran a nodegoat workshop at the Summer School organised by the Forschungsstelle für die Geschichte der Hanse und des Ostseeraums (FGHO) in Lübeck. [....]

nodegoat has been extended with four new features in the past months. These new features were commissioned by three research projects from Switzerland, Slovenia, and The Netherlands. All nodegoat users can now make use of these features: [....]

An example of a document that can be transcribed and ingested into nodegoat.

The nodegoat Guides have been extended with a new section on 'Ingestion Processes'. An Ingestion Process allows you to query an external resource and ingest the returned data in your nodegoat environment. Once the data is stored in nodegoat, it can be used for tagging, referencing, filtering, analysis, and visualisation purposes.[....]

The ERC project 'METROMOD' that runs at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich has recently launched a public user interface for their nodegoat project: archive.metromod.net. [....]

Taxation data of the year 1910 from the GISta Hungarorum project, visualised in nodegoat.

Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont based in Budapest, is running multiple nodegoat projects as part of a new nodegoat Grow configuration. [....]

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.[....]

LAB1100 and the Pelagios Network have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This partnership will help nodegoat users to connect their data to resources available in the Pelagios network and to re-use data that has been created by other Pelagios partners.[....]

LAB1100 has collaborated with Kaspar Gubler of the University of Bern in the SNFS SPARK project "Dynamic Data Ingestion".[....]

LAB1100 is exploring new approaches to the discovery of patterns in historical texts.[....]

A database for historical data needs to be able to account for vague and uncertain data. A recently published series of blog posts describes how to create such a database in nodegoat.[....]

LAB1100 has extended its collaboration with the University of Bern in 2020 with two new projects.[....]

The nodegoat guides have recently been expanded with sections on working with spatial data and on visualising data on any historical map.[....]

Final presentations of the participants of the CEU summer university.

During the 2019 summer university 'Cultures of Dissent in Eastern Europe (1945-1989): Research Approaches in the Digital Humanities' at the Central European University, we taught a group of 20 researchers how to setup a research project in nodegoat. [....]

On Thursday 4 July and Friday 5 July we will give a workshop with the title "Thinking like a database: Digitizing and analysing data in the Humanities" at the University of Amsterdam.[....]

LAB1100 has established a collaboration with the project "Humanist Computer Interaction under Scrutiny" that runs from 2017 until 2020 at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU), the Mainz University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Mainz), and the Darmstadt University of Technology (Technische Universität Darmstadt).[....]

We will give a workshop with the title "Teaching Database Skills for Historical Research with nodegoat" on June 17th at the Institut historique allemand Paris. This workshop is part of the conference 'Teaching History in the Digital Age – international perspectives #dhiha8'. You can find more information about the conference here.We have added the programme of the conference below.[....]

The MapModern project at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) that uses nodegoat to analyse cross-border literary networks and cultural mediators in the hispanic world between 1908 and 1939, has recently published a dataset on translations and reviews in hispanic modernist journals.[....]