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This may come as a postscript to the previous or as a sneak preview of upcoming projects that will deal with theatre and its history. An interesting topic with all the networks of actors knitting their personal ties in ever changing ensembles of... Read More | Share it now!
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!
A collaboration involving FactGrid as the project ressource, the following scholarship announcement in French, English and German: 2 postes de doctorant-e en histoire moderne, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (Université de Fribourg, Suisse) Le Département... Read More | Share it now!
PARIS TO DOWNLOAD comes with a double purpose: it is first designed to provide a dataset for historians to download with one simple click. Click the image below and a SPARQL query will bring the addresses of Paris c. 1830 onto a modern map. On the... Read More | Share it now!
FactGrid began in 2018 with the input of Hermann Schüttler’s list of 1,351 (verified and unverified) members of the Illuminati, our Items Q25 to Q1376. Items Q249748 to Q250919 widen that list with an interesting overlap of 111 names with the... Read More | Share it now!
We are very pleased to announce a pilot project funded by the U.S. federal government’s National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH): “PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept.” It will begin... 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!
Nach den Pfarrern des Gothaer Territoriums (und ihren Ehefrauen, beidseitigen Eltern, Kindern und deren Ehepartnern – insgesamt gut 15.000 Datenbankobjekten) legt Heino Richard hiermit einen zweiten, quer durch diese Gruppe reichenden Datensatz vor:... Read More | Share it now!
Im Rahmen eines größeren Forschungsprojekts zu deutsch-indischen Kulturbeziehungen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus stellte sich mir wiederholt die Frage, weshalb immer wieder eine bestimmte Gruppe von Künstlern und Schopenhauerenthusiasten eine... Read More | Share it now!
With any luck, by the end of this year my book on the Early Sources on the emerging high degree Masonic bodies that became the Scottish Rite will see the press. COVID-19 has been challenging on all aspects of the economy and society, and the... Read More | Share it now!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!