diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/pom.xml b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/pom.xml
index 8cecaffbed..c327262ae5 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/pom.xml
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/pom.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
         <artifactId>dhp-workflows</artifactId>
         <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
-    <artifactId>dhp-aggregations</artifactId>
+    <artifactId>dhp-aggregation</artifactId>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/pom.xml b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3af9b376ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>dhp-workflows</artifactId>
+        <groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <artifactId>dhp-graph-mapper</artifactId>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spark-sql_2.11</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>eu.dnetlib</groupId>
+            <artifactId>dnet-openaire-data-protos</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.googlecode.protobuf-java-format</groupId>
+            <artifactId>protobuf-java-format</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
+            <artifactId>dhp-common</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>eu.dnetlib.dhp</groupId>
+            <artifactId>dhp-schemas</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        </dependency>
+
+    </dependencies>
+
+
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/ProtoConverter.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/ProtoConverter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f22d7875e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/ProtoConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.graph;
+
+
+import com.googlecode.protobuf.format.JsonFormat;
+import eu.dnetlib.data.proto.KindProtos;
+import eu.dnetlib.data.proto.OafProtos;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.*;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+
+public class ProtoConverter implements Serializable {
+
+
+    public static Oaf convert(String s) {
+        try {
+            final OafProtos.Oaf.Builder builder =  OafProtos.Oaf.newBuilder();
+            JsonFormat.merge(s, builder);
+
+            if (builder.getKind() == KindProtos.Kind.entity)
+                return convertEntity(builder);
+            else {
+               return convertRelation(builder);
+            }
+        } catch (Throwable e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static Relation convertRelation(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Relation();
+    }
+
+    private static OafEntity convertEntity(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+
+        switch (oaf.getEntity().getType()) {
+            case result:
+                return convertResult(oaf);
+            case project:
+                return convertProject(oaf);
+            case datasource:
+                return convertDataSource(oaf);
+            case organization:
+                return convertOrganization(oaf);
+            default:
+                throw new RuntimeException("received unknown type");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static Organization convertOrganization(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Organization();
+    }
+
+    private static Datasource convertDataSource(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Datasource();
+    }
+
+    private static Project convertProject(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Project();
+    }
+
+    private static Result convertResult(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        switch (oaf.getEntity().getResult().getMetadata().getResulttype().getClassid()) {
+            case "dataset":
+                return createDataset(oaf);
+            case "publication":
+                return createPublication(oaf);
+            case "software":
+                return createSoftware(oaf);
+            case "orp":
+                return createORP(oaf);
+            default:
+                throw new RuntimeException("received unknown type :"+oaf.getEntity().getResult().getMetadata().getResulttype().getClassid());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static Software createSoftware(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Software();
+    }
+
+    private static OtherResearchProducts createORP(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new OtherResearchProducts();
+    }
+
+    private static Publication createPublication(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Publication();
+    }
+
+    private static Dataset createDataset(OafProtos.Oaf.Builder oaf) {
+        return new Dataset();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/SparkGraphImporterJob.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/SparkGraphImporterJob.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ef046631b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/SparkGraphImporterJob.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.graph;
+
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Publication;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
+import scala.Tuple2;
+
+public class SparkGraphImporterJob {
+
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
+
+        //TODO add argument parser
+//        final ArgumentApplicationParser parser = new ArgumentApplicationParser(IOUtils.toString(SparkGraphImporterJob.class.getResourceAsStream("/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/graph_importer_parameters.json")));
+//        parser.parseArgument(args);
+
+        final SparkSession spark = SparkSession
+                .builder()
+                .appName("ImportGraph")
+                //TODO replace with: master(parser.get("master"))
+                .master("local[16]")
+                .getOrCreate();
+
+
+        final JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(spark.sparkContext());
+
+
+        final JavaRDD<Tuple2<String, String>> inputRDD = sc.sequenceFile("file:///home/sandro/part-m-02236", Text.class, Text.class).map(item -> new Tuple2<>(item._1.toString(), item._2.toString()));
+
+        final long totalPublication = inputRDD
+                .filter(s -> s._1().split("@")[2].equalsIgnoreCase("body"))
+                .map(Tuple2::_2)
+                .map(ProtoConverter::convert)
+                .filter(s -> s instanceof Publication)
+                .count();
+
+        System.out.println(totalPublication);
+
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/SparkGraphImporterJobTest.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/SparkGraphImporterJobTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1e561aa3eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-graph-mapper/src/test/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/graph/SparkGraphImporterJobTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.graph;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class SparkGraphImporterJobTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void  testImport() throws Exception {
+        SparkGraphImporterJob.main(null);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/pom.xml b/dhp-workflows/pom.xml
index bb6a53feb0..df6119d3c8 100644
--- a/dhp-workflows/pom.xml
+++ b/dhp-workflows/pom.xml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     <modules>
         <module>dhp-aggregation</module>
         <module>dhp-distcp</module>
+        <module>dhp-graph-mapper</module>
     </modules>
 
     <pluginRepositories>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a91114b2ec..5e00ada157 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
         <module>dhp-schemas</module>
         <module>dhp-common</module>
         <module>dhp-workflows</module>
-        <module>dhp-applications</module>
     </modules>
 
     <issueManagement>