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!
Winningen – eine Dorfgesellschaft um 1850
Während es auf FactGrid bereits mehrere Projekte gibt, die ganze Städte erschließen, seien es Leipzig, Gotha, Paris oder Aschersleben, ist das bisher noch nicht für den Siedlungsraum Dorf passiert. Winningen ist ein ehemaliges Gutsdorf, das seit... Read More | Share it now!
At least a make shift solution: The “Julian calendar stabiliser”
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!
Roscher’s Lexikon of Mythology as Linked Open Data: Starting a Project on FactGrid
In the age of Linked Open Data, the humanities have increasingly turned their attention from the mere collection of data to its modelling with ontologies and data models. In the field of Greek mythology, these approaches have started in very recent... Read More | Share it now!
Erste Hilfe beim Zuordnen mittelalterlicher Ortsnamen (5770 Vorschläge)
Anfang des Jahres fragten wir (ich gab die Frage für Kathleen Schnabel und das Team Robert Gramsch-Stehfests ins Netz) die Welt der “Twitter Mediävisten” nach einem klugen Tipp, wie wir gut 3000 mittelalterliche Ortsnamen identifiziert... Read More | Share it now!
A FactGrid vocabulary of types of functional texts after Eckard Rolf
auf Deutsch The data set in basic queries: The presently collected types of functional texts in German, English, French, and Spanish with Eckard Rolf’s bottom-line classifications https://tinyurl.com/27ctrfam EntiTree visualisation of the... 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!
PhiloBiblon receives a new grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
We are delighted to announce that PhiloBiblon, a database of the primary sources for the study of medieval Iberia, has received a two-year implementation grant from the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program of the National Endowment... Read More | Share it now!
Grèves à Nantes (France) entre 1885 et 1909 / Strikes in Nantes (France) between 1885 and 1909
“Ce matin, 16 janvier courant, à 8 heures, une centaine d’ouvrières de la corderie Loyant-Péan, sise à Nantes, chemin de la Miséricorde, ont quitté l’atelier déclarant qu’elles se mettaient en grève.” Archives départementales... 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!
Der “Orden der grünen Bergmänner“ – Ein unbekanntes Stück Sozietätsgeschichte aus den Tiefen der „Schwedenkiste“
I| Ein unverhoffter Fund In einem im August 1783 für den Illuminatenorden abgefassten Lebenslauf berichtete der zu diesem Zeitpunkt 55-jährige sachsen-gothaische Kammerherr, Gardeoberst und zukünftige lokale Illuminatenobere Christian Georg von... Read More | Share it now!
Factgrid Federated: How to retrieve data from Wikidata and DBpedia from the Factgrid SPARQL endpoint
Unfortunately becoming an official source for federated {something missing} from Wikidata is not as easy as one writing Factgrid on a waiting list. More over the time perspective seems in unclear. {Gib mir den Absatz auf Deutsch…} {Auch der... Read More | Share it now!
FactGrid wants to become part of the Wikidata federation ecosystem
Linked, open data and Knowledge Graphs show their full power when they are connected. In technical terms this is called federation. A query across multiple data sources is then a federated query. For example, an item from FactGrid is linked to the... Read More | Share it now!
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!
Freimaurer, Illuminaten, Rosenkreuzer, Jesuiten, Alchemisten, Mesmeristen… — die verloren gegangene Bibliothek des letzten illuminatischen Ordensprovinzials
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode starb am 13. Dezember 1793, zwei Stunden vor Mitternacht – wohl an den Folgen der Zahn- und Kieferentzündungen, die ihm seit Jahren mit Anfällen von „Flußfieber und Zahnschmerzen” zu schaffen machten. Damit kam in... Read More | Share it now!