a database for historians
auf Deutsch en français magyarul What is FactGrid? Why should I use FactGrid for my own research? Why not use Wikidata right away? FactGrid comes free of charge – how does that work? What do I do with unorthodox research interests? Which tools... Read More | Share it now!
I| Ein unverhoffter Fund In einem im August 1783 für den Illuminatenorden abgefassten Lebenslauf berichtete der zu diesem Zeitpunkt 55-jährige sachsen-gothaische Kammerherr, Gardeoberst und zukünftige lokale Illuminatenobere Christian Georg von... Read More | Share it now!
Linked, open data and Knowledge Graphs show their full power when they are connected. In technical terms this is called federation. A query across multiple data sources is then a federated query. For example, an item from FactGrid is linked to the... Read More | Share it now!
You are not looking at a sheet of cookies or ceramic tiles, these are a group of tablets from the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara, Turkey. They come from an ancient city called Kanesh, in Kültepe Turkey, in the region of Cappadocia,... Read More | Share it now!
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode starb am 13. Dezember 1793, zwei Stunden vor Mitternacht – wohl an den Folgen der Zahn- und Kieferentzündungen, die ihm seit Jahren mit Anfällen von „Flußfieber und Zahnschmerzen” zu schaffen machten. Damit kam in... Read More | Share it now!
FactGrid is a wonderful, free and collaborative resource that the Gotha Research Center of the University of Erfurt in Germany has made available to the international historical community through the efforts of Olaf Simons. Many potential users are... Read More | Share it now!
FactGrid is a graph database. If you run searches in such a database you should rather not think of a resource filled with interrelated tables (of people, places, organizations, documents…) – but of something more spatial, more geometric,... Read More | Share it now!
Das FactGrid ist eine Graphdatenbank. Das heißt, dass man sich die Datenlage in einer solchen Ressource besser nicht in Form von fünf oder zehn großen, aufeinander verweisenden Tabellen (zu Personen, Orten, Organisationen und Dokumenten etwa)... Read More | Share it now!
Die Universität Erfurt lud uns ein, im kommenden Sommersemester eine online Coffee-Talk Serie zum FactGrid als kollaborativer Forschungsplattform zu veranstalten. Neun Themenschwerpunkte haben wir ausgesucht. Die Veranstaltungen sollen kurz und für... Read More | Share it now!
This may come as a postscript to the previous or as a sneak preview of upcoming projects that will deal with theatre and its history. An interesting topic with all the networks of actors knitting their personal ties in ever changing ensembles of... Read More | Share it now!
William Taylor’s typesetter stumbled over the date which Robinson Crusoe’s manuscript was spelling out for his page 46: 1659, “the same Day eight Year that I went from my Father and Mother at Hull“. Either this was a mistake or... Read More | Share it now!
A collaboration involving FactGrid as the project ressource, the following scholarship announcement in French, English and German: 2 postes de doctorant-e en histoire moderne, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (Université de Fribourg, Suisse) Le Département... Read More | Share it now!
PARIS TO DOWNLOAD comes with a double purpose: it is first designed to provide a dataset for historians to download with one simple click. Click the image below and a SPARQL query will bring the addresses of Paris c. 1830 onto a modern map. On the... Read More | Share it now!
FactGrid began in 2018 with the input of Hermann Schüttler’s list of 1,351 (verified and unverified) members of the Illuminati, our Items Q25 to Q1376. Items Q249748 to Q250919 widen that list with an interesting overlap of 111 names with the... Read More | Share it now!
We are very pleased to announce a pilot project funded by the U.S. federal government’s National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH): “PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept.” It will begin... Read More | Share it now!
Germany’s national author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe called it a “masquerade in red and white”, but was himself a member (just as he became a member of the Illuminati a little bit later; it made sense to join such organisations and to know from... Read More | Share it now!