FactGrid:The Global Genealogy of Lodges: Difference between revisions

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Masonic chart, 1847

More than 2000 data sets to cope with

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FactGrid is most certainly the best resource on the Illuminati — the secret "Order" founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. With the data which we could bring together form different research projects we received information about a 100 late-18th-century lodges of the German speaking territories. This is not surprising — Weishaupt's Anti-Rosicrucian secret Order had, after all, transformed itself in the late 1770s into a Masonic high-grade system in order to infiltrate lodges and with them Masonic networks.

A second wave of lodges came into the FactGrid with the first GND test input: 803 in total, again mostly of the former German speaking territories. Our present map gives the picture with the shadow of history: The former German territories in modern Poland had complex Masonic network. Most of the information on our Data records is GND information designed to merely identify lodges. Research will ask questions like:

Who granted the patents? (How did Freemasonry spread on the global map?)
How and when did these lodges change affiliations to Grand Lodges and parent organisations?
Which systems and rites did they adopt and adhere to?
Who were the members?
Who filled leading positions?
Where did these lodges reside?
What histories of naming did they write?
Where can we still find archival records?
What has been published about these lodges?

For some 600 Lodges we can give the links to the former archives now lodged in the Prussian Privy State Archives, Berlin. Information on some 500 Grand Lodges came into the compound from the Wikipedia List of Grand Lodges with additional knowledge about external affiliations. All these data can be edited by anyone with an account. The data sets of all all the lodges on FactGrid can be grabbed with these links:

The data set of Gotha's lodge gives a pattern of in depth information we can give with more research:

Lodge 'Ernst zum Compaß', Gotha

But the The Global Genealogy of Lodges would demand a far wider perspective — a perspective one would match with the genealogy of degrees, rites and systems that developed in this spread.

We are here only at the beginning. It would take more than a team to get the bigger picture — it would take a joint venture of lodges and lodge archives to provide the wider picture of the historical network that is here going back into the early 18th century.

Some things one might like to know about lodges

mother lodge
ritual (do they change?)
the various historical names with specific information about name changes.
location (city)
changing addresses/buildings over time
offices
members
objects of interest (if lodges want to offer insight into interesting historical possessions).
...

Reaching out

We will need for this project a team of at least some 10 people who could organise the entire project independently on FactGrid. They should have

connections into the Masonic world in order to win history minded Brethren in partnering lodges.
the knowledge about web applications needed in order to create an interface which Masonic websites could use as their gate to FactGrid data.
the necessary historical knowledge needed to ask the question the database should eventually answer.

all lodges, by place of resident with information about founding date, constitution and mother lodge

Create an Item and set statements:

P2+Q11211 = is a lodge

P83+Q... = place of residence

P49+date = date of constitution

P50+date = operating until

P137+94446 History and first active phase

[Qualifier] P49+date from

[Qualifier] P50+date until

P361+Q99800 = System: St John's Lodge

P361+Q99801 = System: St Andrew's Lodge

All FactGrid properties of specific Masonic interest

Links

FactGrid search: All Lodges by date of establishment
Lanes Masonic Records
Search of the German National Library GND-Data, 800 data sets - these data sets will become FacgtGrid objects during the next year.]
Bossu
Wikidata query a masonic lodge - 255 datasets strangely meager.

Wikidata folgt Wikipedia. Und dort haben Vereine eine schweren Stand, Logenhäuser als Denkmale gehen eher: Wiki likes Monuments. Die Verbindung läuft also oft über die Liegenschaft (Eigentum, Anschrift), siehe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8610826 --Martin Gollasch (talk) 09:47, 30 August 2019 (CEST)

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 * [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FOrt%20%3FOrtLabel%20%3FGeokoordinaten%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ11211.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP83%20%3FOrt.%0A%20%20%3FOrt%20wdt%3AP48%20%3FGeokoordinaten.%0A%7D Map view] / [https://tinyurl.com/tj9goev tinyurl]
-FactGrid is most certainly the best resource on the Illuminati, the secret "Order" founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. The Illuminati were our first focus. Weishaupt's Anti-Rosicrucian secret order had, after all, transformed itself in the late 1770s into a Masonic high-grade system in order to infiltrate Lodges all over the German speaking territories. About 100 of these lodges had therefore been among our first 16.000 data sets in 2018.
+FactGrid is most certainly the best resource on the Illuminati &mdash; the secret "Order" founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. With the data which we could bring together form different research projects we received information about a 100 late-18th-century lodges of the German speaking territories. This is not surprising &mdash; Weishaupt's Anti-Rosicrucian secret Order had, after all, transformed itself in the late 1770s into a Masonic high-grade system in order to infiltrate lodges and with them Masonic networks.
-A second wave of Lodges came into the system with the first GND test input: 803, mostly German and Ex-German, Lodges. These data sets are not that satisfying from a Masonic point of view. Here two exemplary GND records (and remember this is Library information, not Masonic):
+A second wave of lodges came into the FactGrid with the first GND test input: 803 in total, again mostly of the former German speaking territories. Our present map gives the picture with the shadow of history: The former German territories in modern Poland had complex Masonic network. Most of the information on our Data records is GND information designed to merely identify lodges. Research will ask questions like:
-* [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D1050324-9&fbclid=IwAR13WcAA063RdckB6PD_SsadQQEDYK4BXuWmXWK6tqCpun9rUDzswY0cfUU Große National-Mutterloge in den Preußischen Staaten, genannt Zu den Drei Weltkugeln]
+* Who granted the patents? (How did Freemasonry spread on the global map?)
-* [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D251912-4&fbclid=IwAR12s_uKTWikrfw0Qpl2ffEHSejKZ38oIXqx1X8s8-E-Vl3dPkDZIDOD-io Große Loge von Preußen, Genannt Royal York zur Freundschaft]
+* How and when did these lodges change affiliations to Grand Lodges and parent organisations?
+* Which systems and rites did they adopt and adhere to?
+* Who were the members?
+* Who filled leading positions?
+* Where did these lodges reside?
+* What histories of naming did they write?
+* Where can we still find archival records?
+* What has been published about these lodges?
-A further 600 Lodges have their [http://archivdatenbank.gsta.spk-berlin.de/midosasearch-gsta/MidosaSEARCH/Bestaendeuebersicht/xml/inhalt/GStA_Bestaendeuebersicht_10_3_1_3_titles_ex.htm archives in Berlin's State Archive] and 500 Grand more Lodges came into the compound from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Masonic_Grand_Lodges Wikipedia List of Grand Lodges] with additional knowledge about their external affiliations. All these data can be edited by anyone with an account. The data sets of all all the lodges on FactGrid can be grabbed with these links:
+For some 600 Lodges we can give the links to the former [http://archivdatenbank.gsta.spk-berlin.de/midosasearch-gsta/MidosaSEARCH/Bestaendeuebersicht/xml/inhalt/GStA_Bestaendeuebersicht_10_3_1_3_titles_ex.htm archives now lodged in the Prussian Privy State Archives, Berlin]. Information on some 500 Grand Lodges came into the compound from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Masonic_Grand_Lodges Wikipedia List of Grand Lodges] with additional knowledge about external affiliations. All these data can be edited by anyone with an account. The data sets of all all the lodges on FactGrid can be grabbed with these links:
 * [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FA%20%3FALabel%20%3Fwhere%20%3FwhereLabel%20%3Fsince%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ11211.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA%20wdt%3AP83%20%3Fwhere.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA%20wdt%3AP49%20%3Fsince.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FwhereLabel All the Lodges on FactGrid]
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 * [https://tinyurl.com/upmvfwj all Grand Lodges and how they are organised by chosing umbrella organisations: net work graph]
-The data set of Gotha's lodge is perhaps a pattern of what one could do:
+The data set of Gotha's lodge gives a pattern of in depth information we can give with more research:
 * [https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/Item:Q10575 Lodge 'Ernst zum Compaß', Gotha]
-But the ''The Global Genealogy of Lodges'' would demand a far wider perspective:
+But the ''The Global Genealogy of Lodges'' would demand a far wider perspective &mdash; a perspective one would match with the genealogy of degrees, rites and systems that developed in this spread.
-* One would love to have the list of all the Lodges that ever existed with structural information on
-:* the Lodges that granted the respective patents
-:* the changing parent organisations
-:* systems and rites
-:* members and their positions
-* the geographic coordinates of historical buildings
-* the histories of the respective name changes
-* indications of archival materials
-* links to publications
+We are here only at the beginning. It would take more than a team to get the bigger picture &mdash; it would take a joint venture of lodges and lodge archives to provide the wider picture of the historical network that is here going back into the early 18th century.
 == Some things one might like to know about lodges ==