a database for historians
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!
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!
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!
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!