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== [[FactGrid:The Bible & Quran Project|The Bible & Quran Project]] ==
== [[FactGrid:The Bible & Quran Project|The Bible & Quran Project]] ==
Initiated by [[User:Tim Herb|Tim Herb]] the project aims to map all biblical and Quranic names and to connect these with the genealogical and historical information given in the Biblical texts. As Wikibase allows contradicting statements we will not try to harmonise the information. The project will rather offer competing chronologies and genealogies according to the various statements of the individual books.
[[File:Biblical women.JPG|thumb|400px|[https://tinyurl.com/y9hh4vt5 All the Bible's people, ties to children and gender]]]
The FactGrid ''Bible & Quran Project'' is still in its experimental stages and a project looking for a team of people to take over. It aims to provide the historical knowledge of the Bible and the Quran in a SPARQL readable format — in a format open to logical searches, data mining and big data visualisations.


The project is still in its initial stages: The first target was a Bible reference system on FactGrid - every verse needed a Q-Number. We should connect these to texts — the BibleServer.com translations might be a practical partner here. We started a free Protestant text base: the King James Version and a Luther Version of 1912. This too needs to be expanded.
The main asset is presently the dataset of the roughly 3000 personal records more or less all people mentioned in the biblical books. We can roughly state their genealogical connections and we are now about to widen the scope of information with biblical politics, events, textual references and internal dates (Usser's chronology would be an interesting thing to have with all the personal records).  


We are presently mapping the Biblical protagonists on this grid. GND and Wikidata identifiers should solidify this work; connections of family ties and places are on our road map. A couple of first searches:
The project is interesting from the historian's perspective as we are dealing here with the text base that was the backbone of all historical knowledge for centuries in the Christian and Muslim world. It had to be accepted that the world was created around 4,000 BCE. The historical traditions of all the other cultures ancient and exotic seemed inflated against the extremely rational framework of the biblical texts.
 
The project should at the same moment be of immense interest to all who are studying the Bible or the Quran from various theological and non-religious backgrounds as it promises to provide conclusive free and open to use data sets to explore in textual studies — data sets that can be downloaded and scanned far better than any of the traditional indices of the texts extant.
 
'''First searches'''


* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#SELECT%20%3FBibelbuch%20%3FBibelbuchLabel%20%3FBibelbuchDescription%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge%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%3FBibelbuch%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ74902.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FBibelbuch%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge.%20%7D%0A%7D The 66 Books of the (Protestant) Bible]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#SELECT%20%3FBibelbuch%20%3FBibelbuchLabel%20%3FBibelbuchDescription%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge%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%3FBibelbuch%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ74902.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FBibelbuch%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge.%20%7D%0A%7D The 66 Books of the (Protestant) Bible]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FBibelvers%20%3FBibelversLabel%20%3FBibelversDescription%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge%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%3FBibelvers%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ43672.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FBibelvers%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge.%20%7D%0A%7D The 31,174 verses of the (Protestant) Bible]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FBibelvers%20%3FBibelversLabel%20%3FBibelversDescription%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge%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%3FBibelvers%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ43672.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FBibelvers%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition_in_Abfolge.%20%7D%0A%7D The 31,174 verses of the (Protestant) Bible]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FPerson%20%3FPersonLabel%20%3FPersonDescription%20%3Fnoted%20%3FnotedLabel%20%3FGenderLabel%20%3FFather%20%3FFatherLabel%20%3FMother%20%3FMotherLabel%20%3Fbirth%20%3Fdeath%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ8811.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP143%20%3Fnoted.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP141%20%3FFather.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP142%20%3FMother.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP154%20%3FGender.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP77%20%3Fbirth.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP38%20%3Fdeath.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FPersonLabel%29 All 3504 Biblical protagonists with parents] / [https://tinyurl.com/yba74snd tinyurl] / [https://tinyurl.com/ybsmhelf Network of family ties]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FPerson%20%3FPersonLabel%20%3FPersonDescription%20%3Fnoted%20%3FnotedLabel%20%3FGenderLabel%20%3FFather%20%3FFatherLabel%20%3FMother%20%3FMotherLabel%20%3Fbirth%20%3Fdeath%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ8811.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP143%20%3Fnoted.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP141%20%3FFather.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP142%20%3FMother.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP154%20%3FGender.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP77%20%3Fbirth.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP38%20%3Fdeath.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FPersonLabel%29 All the c. 3,000 biblical protagonists with parents] / [https://tinyurl.com/yba74snd tinyurl] / [https://tinyurl.com/ybsmhelf Network of family ties]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FSerpent%20%3FSerpentLabel%20%3FSerpentDescription%20%3FPosition%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%3FSerpent%20wdt%3AP256%20wd%3AQ165522%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ43672.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FSerpent%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FPosition%0A Serpents, where mentioned]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FSerpent%20%3FSerpentLabel%20%3FSerpentDescription%20%3FPosition%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%3FSerpent%20wdt%3AP256%20wd%3AQ165522%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ43672.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FSerpent%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FPosition%0A Serpents, where mentioned]


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Revision as of 22:11, 14 July 2020

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The Bible & Quran Project

The FactGrid Bible & Quran Project is still in its experimental stages and a project looking for a team of people to take over. It aims to provide the historical knowledge of the Bible and the Quran in a SPARQL readable format — in a format open to logical searches, data mining and big data visualisations.

The main asset is presently the dataset of the roughly 3000 personal records more or less all people mentioned in the biblical books. We can roughly state their genealogical connections and we are now about to widen the scope of information with biblical politics, events, textual references and internal dates (Usser's chronology would be an interesting thing to have with all the personal records).

The project is interesting from the historian's perspective as we are dealing here with the text base that was the backbone of all historical knowledge for centuries in the Christian and Muslim world. It had to be accepted that the world was created around 4,000 BCE. The historical traditions of all the other cultures ancient and exotic seemed inflated against the extremely rational framework of the biblical texts.

The project should at the same moment be of immense interest to all who are studying the Bible or the Quran from various theological and non-religious backgrounds as it promises to provide conclusive free and open to use data sets to explore in textual studies — data sets that can be downloaded and scanned far better than any of the traditional indices of the texts extant.

First searches