About on Bas Ernst

Objectives This week I continue to improve my understanding of RDF.

When studying towards my undergraduate in IT I got interested in graph databases.

Learning RDF: a hands-on approach While writing my BSc thesis, I learned the basics of labelled property graphs, working mainly with Neo4j, and I also experimented a little with RDF-based graph querying using Wikidata.

On Saturday 28 March 2026 I attended the graduation ceremony of the Open University at the Barbican Centre in London, an absolutely brilliant event and a memorable way to celebrate with my biggest supporters the conclusion of an eight-year journey studying

I will once again work with the small dataset I used for my previous post.

In my previous post I mentioned using a graph database to store data from a small cultural diplomacy database.

There are many definitions about cultural diplomacy.

Making evaluations of cultural projects easy In general, those working in cultural diplomacy tend to focus on making projects happen.

Analysing Gender and Diplomacy using Neo4j and Pandas In December 2025, I completed my BSc in Computing and IT at the Open University in the UK.