a database for historians
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!
What is the FactGrid? Why should I use the FactGrid for my own research? Why not use Wikidata right away? The FactGrid comes free of charge – how does that work? What do I do with unorthodox research interests? Which tools does the software... Read More | Share it now!
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 Forschungsanliegen? Welche Tools... 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!
English Version Das FactGrid-Projekt steht vor zwölf Monaten neuer Herausforderungen: Mit ihren Unterschriften vom 15. und 25. März 2019 unterzeichneten der Präsident der Universität Erfurt, Prof. Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, und Dr. Elisabeth... Read More | Share it now!
Die Tickets für die erste große – vom 3. auf den 4. Dezember 2018 an der Frankfurter Nationalbibliothek veranstaltete – GNDCon waren Monate zuvor restlos vergeben. Um die 300 Interessenten füllten schließlich den großen Saal der Adickesallee 1... Read More | Share it now!
Der Gotha Zettelkasten Arbeitsseite im FactGrid mit laufenden Treffen und Projekten Facebook Gruppe In den letzten Wochen gaben wir am Forschungszentrum Gotha mehrere – einander überlappende – Datensätze ins FactGrid ein. Unser Ziel ist es, die... Read More | Share it now!
Das Forschungszentrum Gotha veranstaltet jährlich einen „Illuminatenworkshop“ mit dem Ziel, aktuelle Forschung zum Geheimorden der 1770er und 1780er Jahre zu bündeln. Nachdem wir dieses Jahr in einer Kooperation mit Wikimedia Deutschland gut... Read More | Share it now!
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/vikus/ VISUALIZING CULTURAL COLLECTIONS At the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, »Visualizing Cultural Collections« is a cross-disciplinary research theme that started with the reseach project VIKUS (Visualisierung... Read More | Share it now!
German Version The FactGrid (still lacking a unique design) has, over the last six weeks, just received its first project data – data from Halle’s and Gotha’s Illuminati research of the last 20 years, which I will briefly outline in the... Read More | Share it now!
in English Das FactGrid (noch immer ohne ein eigenständiges Design) erhielt in den letzten Wochen seine ersten Projektdaten – Daten aus der Illuminatenforschung Halles und Gothas der letzten 20 Jahre, die hier kurz umrissen seien. Rudimentär sind... Read More | Share it now!
The Problem Original research means that we will (also) have to deal with statements that have not been published before. So far this is a huge problem for any researcher. Should she make a claim that was never made before – minutes after she... Read More | Share it now!
The Wikibase software has been designed to serve underneath the +200 Wikipedia installations, it is offering its services in SPARQL-queries but it does not aim at people interested in the facts collected on an item of knowledge. Magnus Manske’s... Read More | Share it now!
The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus 6.4321 The FactGrid still needs its own cohesive design. The name is a modest... Read More | Share it now!
Wikidata’s Wikibase installation has been filled almost entirely in massive automated data inputs. That is probably why input forms were not exactly the first priority. Our database will focus on researchers and regular users whose tasks will call... Read More | Share it now!