The GD Collection v1 is a set of 4,890 graph drawings that we have extracted from 27 editions of the proceedings of the Symposium of Graph Drawing (and Network Visualization) 1998–2024.
The collection contains graphs in GEG (GEG Encodes Graphs) and GraphViz dot file formats. Note that while widely used, the dot format extension for edge geometries (as defined in Appendix F of their User's Manual) is rather niche and may not be supported by most software. We recommend using the GEG versions.
Each GEG/dot file contains a mandatory set of metadata. Directedness which is always false due to
limitations of our pipeline even if the original drawing was directed, the digital object identifier
(DOI) of the publication, and the figure number if our tools were able to extract it (note that this
was not very reliable).
Refer to gd_metadata.csv in the root directory of this repository for title, pages, and authors.
The drawings were extracted in a fully automated and unsupervised process using Graph Harvester. Note that Graph Harvester can only handle vector graphics. In a first evaluation, where we manually checked 101 articles picked at random, we found that Graph Harvester managed to extract 48% of all graph drawings in the PDFs and of these 69% were of high quality (i.e. they accurately reproduce the adjacencies and edge paths depicted).
If you find our work useful for your research, consider citing our paper:
@InProceedings{mhwwp-uqm-GD25,
author = {Mooney, Gavin and Hegemann, Tim and and Wolff, Alexander and Wybrow, Michael and Purchase, Helen},
title = {Universal Quality Metrics for Graph Drawings: Which Graphs Excite Us Most?},
booktitle = {Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD)},
year = {2025},
series = {LIPIcs},
volume = 357,
editor = {Dujmovi{\'c}, Vida and Montecchiani, Fabrizio},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl~-- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
}This collection is joint work by the algorithms and complexity group, University of Würzburg, Germany and the embodied visualisation group, Monash University, Australia.
For contact, you can write an email to hegemann *at* informatik *dot* uni-wuerzburg *dot* de.