Contextualizing Controversies of the Post-Lutheran Reformation: A Workflow for Network Analytics Involving Relational and Graph Batabases

Data accumulated by long term research projects offers interesting perspectives for network analytical research when made available under a free license. In the research project "Controversia et Confessio", the datasets are stored in relational databases, whose structures do not lend themselves easily to the relationship-based thinking necessary for network research. The following paper presents an exemplary analytical workflow involving graph databases as an intermediary storage layer as it was employed in a current network analytical study on this data by the authors.