A Microservice-based Infrastructure for the Academic Research on Semantic Knowledge Graphs and Derived Applications

Abstract

For some time past, conceptual and technological approaches in the field of semantic knowledge graphs (ontologies) have been finding their way into the domain of technical writing, technical information management and knowledge management, with the aim of enhancing the classical classification-based methods and thereby, solving problems that either cannot or can only be solved with difficulty in form of previous approaches. As these concepts are quite new in this field, they are still subject to current research in the academic field. This paper aims at providing a microservice-based software platform to support further studies in this area. In the sense of exploratory prototyping, the platform should make it possible to research various technological and conceptual questions and to demonstrate applications derived from them, regardless of the development status of existing, proprietary productive software applications.