a database for historians
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!
Georgie, If you want to know more about how Academics are using Wikidata in Network Analysis research, here is our full Q+A with the University of Colorado. 2018-10-16 https://medium.com/ Stanislav Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry González, Julius... 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!
Wikibase installations are – at this moment – best explored with the SPARQL query language. Specialists are able to write queries in SPARQL but this is not what you would do as a beginner. Most people take a look at an example of a query... Read More | Share it now!
The video shows how easy it is to get data from regular spreadsheets via QuickStatements into the database. You will find a handy cheat sheet of spreadsheet commands, to format your data here:... Read More | Share it now!
Im Verlauf unserer Arbeit legten wir zur Orientierung innerhalb der Schwedenkiste dieses Spreadsheet an. Jede Zeile (ab 24) ist ein Dokument innerhalb eines der 20 Bände der Schwedenkiste; dem folgen noch einige weitere Dokumente unserer... Read More | Share it now!
siehe https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/159 Wäre es sinnvoll, das FactGrid vorab mit ausgewählten (auf Kerndaten reduzierten) Datensätzen aus Wikdata und der GND zu befüllen, um nicht im leeren Raum zu beginnen? Gäbe es alternativ eine einfache... Read More | Share it now!