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!
Are our Wikibase QueryServices about to mess up two millennia of historical dates?
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!
Eckard Rolfs Vokabular der Gebrauchstextsorten als FactGrid-Angebot
English version Der Datensatz in Basis-Abfragen: FactGrid-Vokabular der Gebrauchstextsorten nach Eckard Rolf, Die Funktionen der Gebrauchstextsorten (Berlin/ New York, 1993), 2079 Items (Stand Juli 2023), alphabetisch sortiert, Download-Optionen am... Read More | Share it now!
FactGrid Goes NFDI
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!
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!
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!
Filling a Wikibase instance with millions of data
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!
FactGrid GYIK – Miért használjam a FactGridet a kutatási projektemhez?
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!
The first volume of the Thuringian pastor’s book (1500–1920) as a Wikibase data set
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!
FAQ FactGrid – Pourquoi devrais-je utiliser FactGrid pour mon projet de recherche ?
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!
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!
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!
FactGrid FAQ – Why should I use FactGrid for my research project?
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!
FactGrid FAQ – Warum sollte ich das FactGrid für die eigene Forschung nutzen?
in English en françaismagyar nyelven Was ist das FactGrid? Warum sollte ich das FactGrid für die eigene Forschung benutzen? Warum nicht gleich Wikidata benutzen? Das FactGrid kommt kostenfrei – wie geht das an? Was mache ich mit unorthodoxen... Read More | Share it now!
Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Erfurt and the German National Library – to base the FactGrid on GND data in a joint project
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!