Graph the docs - What happens if you use Neo4j for a documentation project?

This month we'll have Kristof Van Tomme showing us how graphs can be used to transform how documentation is created and consumed.

Please make sure you sign up on the Skillsmatter page as well (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/9616-using-graph-databases-in-popular-open-source-cmss) for quick entry into the venue.

Graph the docs - What happens if you use graph databases for a documentation project?
Kristof Van Tomme, CEO of Pronovix

4 trends are radically transforming how documentation is created an consumed. In this talk you will explain what they are and how they are changing documentation.After a short introduction of Graph databases (for the technical writers in the audience), we’ll then explore 3 traditional application areas for graph databases, and demonstrate their relevancy for documentation projects.

After these more traditional application areas, you will also learn about a new pattern: unfulfilled transient documentation needs, and hear why graph databases are uniquely fit to help identify these need patterns."

About the speaker

Kristof is a Drupal strategist and architect who ended up being sucked in into the open source world after finishing a degree in bioengineering. At Pronovix, the company he co-founded, he’s been working with Drupal since 4.7. A carefully nurtured obsession with reusable, single source documentation and how this technology could be used to create a contribution ecosystem for open source documentation, has culminated in an open source distribution he is building with his team for (developer) documentation portals.

He initiated and later became the co-organizer of an introductory Drupal course at the University of Szeged (Hungary). As a permanent member of the Drupal Association, he was at some point the lead for the selection task force for European Drupalcons and of the inaugural Nomination Committee. Among others, he was the initiator and (co-)lead of Drupalcon Szeged (2008), DrupalCXO Brussels, Amsterdam and Rome, Drupal Developer Days Brussels (2011), Drupal Government Days (2011) and the Write the docs unconference in Berlin (2014 July).