Welcome to the ORKG Academy!

We are happy to welcome you at the learning place for the Open Research Knowledge Graph. Here, we provide you with everything you need to know to use the ORKG in the most effective and useful way for your research. No matter whether you are an absolute beginner who wants to learn about the ORKG from scratch or an ORKG veteran who has a specific question on a particular topic, you came to the right place.

The ORKG Academy is structured into Courses, Tutorials, Concepts, Q&A sections and Shared materials.

If you are feeling overwhelmed and need a quick start, check out our beginner friendly Introduction.

Courses

Courses follow a specific workflow in the ORKG, typically involving usage of multiple ORKG tools and features in order to follow all pathways there are to achieve the goal of the Course.

Comparison Course

Learn all about ORKG Comparisons here. From the why to the how and everything in between.

Papers and Contributions Course

This course teaches you how to enter papers into the ORKG and model their contents semantically.

Template Course

This course teaches you about creating and using templates in the ORKG.

Tutorials

Tutorials revolve around a particular ORKG tool or feature and provide all learning materials for this tool or feature.

Creating a comparison from papers not yet in the ORKG

This tutorial teaches you how to create a comparison from papers that are not yet in the ORKG.

Creating a comparison from papers in the ORKG

Here you can learn how to create a comparison from papers that you have found while browsing the ORKG.

Creating a Comparison via CSV import

If you have a CSV collection of papers already, you can import them in bulk. Learn how to in this tutorial.

Visualization Tutorial for Comparisons

The ORKG has an inbuilt feature for visualizing comparison content. Learn how to use it in this tutorial.

Adding papers to the ORKG manually

This tutorial teaches you how you can add any paper manually to the ORKG.

Adding papers to the ORKG with SciKGTeX

If you author a paper, you can learn here how to make your paper ORKG compatible directly during the writing process.

Creating Templates in the ORKG

Learn how to create ORKG templates in this tutorial.

Using ORKG templates

You found an ORKG template but you are stuck on how to use it? Have a look at this tutorial.

Using the Graph View - A knowledge graph visualization tool

The ORKG has a tool that lets you explore the underlying graph of a paper. Learn how to use it in this tutorial.

AI support for ORKG

While AI is not precise enough to enter data into the ORKG for you, it can be a useful support in ORKG workflows. Learn all possibilities for AI support in this tutorial.

Concepts

Concepts introduce and define key aspects of the ORKG and how they are presented on the platform.

Knowledge Graph

Short explanation of the core concept of the ORKG.

Properties

Here, you’ll learn what properties are and which role they play in the ORKG.

Resources and Literals

Learn all about resources and what they are in the ORKG in this article.

Template Visualization Diagram

When working with ORKG templates, you have the option to check out a visualization of the template structure. Read about this visualizaiton tool here.

Observatories

What is an ORKG Observatory and how can you start one?

FAIR scientific data in the ORKG

What does FAIR mean and how do FAIR and ORKG go together?

Leveraging ChatGPT for ORKG

Explanation of how to utilize ChatGPT as a supportive tool when creating ORKG comparisons.

Using ChatGPT in the ORKG with Smart Suggestions

In the ORKG UI, you can sometimes find a lightbulb on blue background. Learn about our smart suggestion feature here.

Semantic Modelling in the ORKG

In this article, you can learn the Dos and Don’ts of semantic modelling in the ORKG