a database for historians
Friday week before last, we received the news that so many working groups had been eagerly awaiting: the 4Memory consortium (of historical studies) will become part of the Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI), the German National Research Data... Read More | Share it now!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
An welchem Tag genau brach Ernst II. 1786 nach Nizza auf? Als Historiker sucht man immer wieder Antworten auf solche spezifischen Fragen, da sich mit ihnen eingehendere Klärungen ergeben (etwa wenn man Dokumente des Umfelds aus den fraglichen Wochen... Read More | Share it now!