Calls for Contributions: GRAPHIA 1st Pilot Phase and Research Questions
Ursula Rabar
Hi all,
In this email, I share two opportunities to engage with the GRAPHIA project: the 1st Call for Pilots for commercial and industry organisations, and the Quagga platform for researchers in SSH that allows them to contribute questions and explore data.
GRAPHIA invites industry and commercial organisations working with Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) content to join its first Call for Pilots to explore how the GRAPHIA knowledge graph infrastructure can support real-world products, services, and workflows.
Who is this for?
Organisations based in the European Research Area such as (but not limited to) scholarly and trade publishers, EdTech providers, data aggregators, SMEs, start-ups, consultancies, or other organisations working with SSH data.
Benefits:
Early access to tools, services, and infrastructure
Collaboration with SSH, data, and AI experts
Visibility for your organisation on the GRAPHIA website and communications
Deadline for expressions of interest: 5 March 2026
Full details and the short form to express interest can be found here.
2. Musicology in GRAPHIA: exploring data via QuaggaAlongside the Call for Pilots, we’d also like to share a concrete example of how GRAPHIA is already engaging with SSH research.
As part of the project, we recently launched Quagga, a platform developed by our partner Odoma that brings together SSH knowledge graphs alongside example research questions and their corresponding SPARQL queries. Quagga aims to make knowledge graphs easier to understand, explore, and reuse—especially for researchers who are curious but not specialists in semantic technologies.
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. This knowledge graph contains data on approximately 2,000 Dutch organs of historic importance, extracted from the Dutch Organ Encyclopaedia, including information on locations, builders, maintenance and modifications, and stop lists.
Quagga 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 there are many more musicological questions that could be explored, and we invite researchers to contribute additional questions directly via the Quagga platform here. A short how-to video is available to guide new contributors here. You are also welcome to suggest knowledge graphs and questions from other fields.
We hope you’ll 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 can meaningfully support SSH research.
With best regards,
Ursula