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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 are presently the roughly 3000 personal records of tentatively all people mentioned in the biblical books; we can roughly state their genealogical connections and are about to widen the scope of information with biblical politics, events, text references and internal dates.

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 whether ancient or exotic seemed to be inflated against this framework.

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.

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