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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!
As more and more Wikibase instances are cropping up we are seeing attempts to start them with masses of data from already existing data bases that want to switch to the new software. Experimenting I tried to find a faster way to insert a huge amount of... Read More | Share it now!
in English auf Deutsch en français Mi a FactGrid? Miért használjam a FactGridet a saját kutatásomhoz? Miért ne egyből a Wikidatát használjam? A FactGrid ingyenes – hogy működik ez? Mihez kezdhetek az unortodox kutatási témákkal? Milyen... Read More | Share it now!
auf Deutsch In a tremendous effort of a year’s work, Heino Richard of the Genealogical Society of Thuringia e.V., step by step translated the first volume of the Thuringian Pastors’ Books (the volume for the former Duchy of Gotha) into data which... Read More | Share it now!
English Version In einer gewaltigen Arbeitsleistung überführte Heino Richard von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogie Thüringen e.V., Gothaer und Eisenacher Land, im letzten Jahr den ersten Band des Thüringischen Pfarrerbuchs, den Band für das... Read More | Share it now!
auf Deutsch in Englishmagyar nyelven Qu’est-ce que FactGrid ? Pourquoi devrais-je utiliser FactGrid pour mes propres recherches ? Pourquoi ne pas utiliser Wikidata dès maintenant ? FactGrid est gratuit – comment est-ce... Read More | Share it now!
With so many conferences cancelled these days @EMQuon2020 had a particularly refreshing idea to be played out on the internet: To host the first Early Modern Quarantine Conference — or simply Quonference — on Twitter. We have decided to... Read More | Share it now!
Silently and without any fanfare we have passed the 100,000 mark on FactGrid! The item in question is a person: Conrad Alexandre Gérard. In a way he is the perfect candidate to mark this occasion. FactGrid has been diving into networks obscure and... Read More | Share it now!
Am 8. November 2019 inszenieren Mitarbeiter und Promovierende des Forschungszentrums Gotha anlässlich der Erfurter “Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften” 2019 eine Sitzung des Illuminatenordens aus dem Jahr 1786 – eine Zeitreise und ein... Read More | Share it now!
The recent WikidataCon in Berlin had a special panel on Wikibase installations outside Wikidata. Below the video recording of the session embedded from https://media.ccc.de/ This is the list of the talks with the list of the speakers: Anila Angjeli +... Read More | Share it now!
At the 2019 Wikimania conference, Europeana – a Europe-wide digital cultural platform – held several associated events, including the inaugural meeting of national libraries which work directly with Wikidata and its underlying software... Read More | Share it now!
Paul-Olivier Dehaye scripted this visualisation for us (using Uber’s http://Kepler.gl). An html-file that captures all the Illuminati exchanges from the 1770s into the 1790s as far as we have spotted them (there are some misfits in this visualisation... Read More | Share it now!
Wikipedia is available in almost 300 languages, each with independently developed content and perspectives. Sharing more knowledge across languages would allow each edition to focus on their unique contributions, and yet improve their... Read More | Share it now!
in English en françaismagyar nyelven Was ist das FactGrid? Warum sollte ich das FactGrid für die eigene Forschung benutzen? Warum nicht gleich Wikidata benutzen? Das FactGrid kommt kostenfrei – wie geht das an? Was mache ich mit unorthodoxen... Read More | Share it now!
German Version We are proud to announce a new and massive Wikibase project that should keep a large community busy for far more than a year: Last month the president of the University of Erfurt, Prof. Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, and Dr. Elisabeth... Read More | Share it now!