GRAPHIA: Call for Pilots + Musicology Knowledge Graphs via Quagga

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Ursula Rabar

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Feb 7, 2026, 3:08:12 AM (4 days ago) Feb 7

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Dear AI4LAM community,

I’d like to share two opportunities to engage with GRAPHIA, a European research project building an open knowledge graph infrastructure to connect Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) data and make it easier to explore, link, and reuse; particularly relevant for AI-enabled discovery, enrichment, and reuse of cultural and scholarly data.

1. GRAPHIA – 1st Call for Pilots (industry & commercial organisations)

GRAPHIA has opened its first Call for Pilots, inviting industry and commercial organisations working with SSH content to explore how the GRAPHIA knowledge graph infrastructure could support real-world products, services, and workflows.

Who is this for?
Organisations based in the European Research Area, including (but not limited to):

Scholarly or trade publishers
Museums and similar institutions
EdTech providers
Data aggregators
SMEs, start-ups, consultancies
Other organisations working with SSH or cultural heritage data

What’s in it for participants?

Early access to GRAPHIA tools, services, and infrastructure
Collaboration with SSH, data, and AI experts
Visibility via the GRAPHIA website and communication channels

Deadline for expressions of interest: 5 March 2026
Full details and the short expression-of-interest form are available here.

2. Musicology in GRAPHIA: exploring knowledge graphs via Quagga

Alongside the Call for Pilots, I’d also like to share a concrete example of GRAPHIA in action that may be of interest to researchers and practitioners working with LAM data.

GRAPHIA recently launched Quagga, a platform developed by our partner Odoma that brings together SSH knowledge graphs with example research questions and their corresponding SPARQL queries. Quagga is designed to make knowledge graphs more approachable, especially for researchers and practitioners who are curious about semantic technologies but not specialists.

We’re pleased to share that GRAPHIA has received its first musicology-focused knowledge graph via Quagga: The ORGANS Knowledge Graph, developed within the EU-funded Polifonia project. It includes data on ~2,000 Dutch organs of historic importance, extracted from the Dutch Organ Encyclopaedia, covering:

Locations
Builders
Maintenance and modifications
Stop lists

Quagga already documents example questions such as:

What is the oldest organ in the knowledge graph?
Which organs have associated images?
How many organs were built in the 16th century?

We believe many more musicological (and LAM-relevant) questions could be explored. Researchers and practitioners are warmly invited to:

Contribute additional questions directly via the Quagga platform
Watch a short how-to video for new contributors
Suggest other SSH or cultural heritage knowledge graphs and use cases

We hope members of the AI4LAM community will consider engaging with GRAPHIA, either by applying to the Call for Pilots or by exploring and contributing through Quagga. Both are opportunities to help shape how knowledge graphs and AI can meaningfully support SSH and LAM research and practice.