a database for historians
My last blog post triggered a couple of responses on Twitter. It seems I touched a problem that will not be solved that easily. Save dates as Julian on your Wikibase (manually or, with the /J switch, in your QuickStatements mass input) and your... Read More | Share it now!
It was in February 2019 at a conference dinner of medievalists in Jena when I was first confronted with the calendar problem which Wikibase had been posing ever since it had digested its first Julian calendar dates. I had given a Wikibase demonstration... Read More | Share it now!
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!
Liebe Erfurter und Gothaer FactGrid Interessierte, in den letzten Wochen arbeiteten wir im engeren Kreis an der Einrichtung einer WikiBase-Instanz (der Software hinter dem Wikidata-Projekt) auf dem Server der Uni Erfurt:... Read More | Share it now!
Four months have passed since the kick-off workshop shop, and the FactGrid project has run into its first unexpected problems. We are confident that we will solve the – primarily technical – issues, but one of the lessons we have learned so far... 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!