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Posted on 2022-05-122022-05-12

The FactGrid Cuneiform Project: A Wikibase for Cuneiform Sources

  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!

Posted on 2022-04-062022-04-07

Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer

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!

Posted on 2022-04-042022-04-29

Imagine a Graph Query Helper for Graph Databases

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!

Posted on 2022-03-292022-05-25

9 x FactGrid, Coffee Talk Serie an der Universität Erfurt, 14. April – 16. Juni 2022, Donnerstags 13:30

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!

Posted on 2022-02-042022-03-07

How to map itineraries on FactGrid — and Robinson Crusoe’s eight voyages

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!

Posted on 2021-05-252021-05-28

A Quarter of a Million Items on FactGrid – just a brief reflection

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!

Posted on 2020-12-102021-04-27

Ein Best-Practice-Szenario für die Erschließung historischer Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur als Open Data

In Wikiversity erstveröffentlichter Wikimedia-Wettbewerbsbeitrag Projektbeschreibung Das Wissen über die Welt und den menschlichen Umgang mit dieser, über praktische Fähigkeiten und theoretische Erkenntnisse, wurden über Jahrhunderte in... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2020-12-012021-04-27

Einblicke in das interne Berichtswesen des Illuminaten-Ordens. Aus der Hand Hermann Schüttlers: 71 Dokumente der Jahre 1781 bis 1785

Die folgende Materialpräsentation ist das Ergebnis eines zweimonatigen Praktikums im Forschungszentrum Gotha. Mein Projekt war es, der Forschung Vorarbeiten zu einem unvollendet gebliebenen Buchprojekt Hermann Schüttlers datenbankgestützt auf den... Read More | Share it now!

Posted on 2020-05-272020-05-27

FactGrid GYIK – Miért használjam a FactGridet a kutatási projektemhez?

Jack Kirby, "The Fourth Dimension is a many splattered thing!" from Alarming Tales, 1 (September 1957).

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!

Posted on 2020-04-302020-05-27

FAQ FactGrid – Pourquoi devrais-je utiliser FactGrid pour mon projet de recherche ?

Jack Kirby, "The Fourth Dimension is a many splattered thing!" from Alarming Tales, 1 (September 1957).

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!

Posted on 2020-04-202020-05-16

Call for data for the #EMQuon — The Early Modern Quarantine Conference, Friday 15th May and Friday 26th June 2020

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!

Posted on 2019-12-212019-12-28

Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard

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!

Posted on 2019-10-252020-03-05

Wikibase Inspiration Panel at WikidataCon, Berlin, 2019-10-25

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!

Posted on 2019-07-062019-07-16

Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages

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!

Posted on 2019-05-282020-06-10

FactGrid FAQ – Why should I use FactGrid for my research project?

Jack Kirby, "The Fourth Dimension is a many splattered thing!" from Alarming Tales, 1 (September 1957).

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!

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