CIS Graph Database and Model

This dataset is based on the model developed with the Ph.D. students of the Communication and Information Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, intended to help new students get relevant information. The model was first presented at the iConference 2023, in a paper "Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Students " by Stanislava Gardasevic and Rich Gazan (available at: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/9eebcea7-06fd-4db3-b420-347883e6379e/content)The database is created in Neo4J, and the .dump file can be imported to the cloud instance of this software. The dataset (.dump) contains publically available data collected from multiple web locations and indexes of the sample of publications from the people in this domain. Except for that, it contains my (first author's) personal graph demonstrating progress through a student's program in this degree, and activities they have done while in the program. This dataset was made possible with the huge help of my collaborator, Petar Popovic, who ingested the data in the database.The model and dataset were developed while involving the end users in the design and are based on the actual information needs of a population. It is intended to allow researchers to investigate multigraph visualization of the data modeled by the said model.The knowledge graph was evaluated with CIS student population, and the study results show that it is very helpful for decision-making, information discovery, and identification of people in one's surroundings who might be good collaborators or information points. We provide the .json file containing the Neo4J Bloom perspective with styling and queries used in these evaluation sessions.