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== Who would join this project to provide the necessary momentum? ==
== 799 data sets to cope with ==
In the course of 2019 we will implement millions of GND data sets. Among them data sets such as these:


This would be a project to run with a team of at least 10 people. One would love to have different fields of expertise on board:
* [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]
* [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]


* people with wide connections who can address other lodges as partners.
We should be able to go beyond the 799 and we should be able to provide a couple of more interesting statements than those made here with the help of all the lodges world wide.  
* programmers who know how to do mass inputs of data, people who can run interesting SPARQL queries on such data and who could create interfaces that would work on masonic websites.
* people with the necessary historical knowledge to understand what such a database should be able to tell us - we need the questions to do the constructive input and to get the interesting visualisations of data.


== Where would we get the data to start with? ==
== Momentum ==


Creating masses of data-objects by hand is not much fun. One would love to run a major list input with basic data such as names, locations, internal identifiers, basic dates.
We should have a team of at least 10 people who could consider what one should know about a lodge and how lodges evolved in genealogies and systems. We would need people with


:FactGrid will get the 799 data sets of [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&reset=true&cqlMode=true&query=bspRef%3D041553306&selectedCategory=any GND data] in the course of this year, but the GND data might not be the the best data to start with.
* Masonic connections who could win history minded people in other lodges as partners.
* knowledge about web applications who could create an interface that focuses on masonic FactGrid information. The interface to create allows you to search lodges and documents. It should have visualisations such as a generate a pedigree for the specific lodge.  
* the necessary historical knowledge to understand what such a database should be able to offer.


== What would one like to know about lodges? ==
The site top create could run on any server - we would just be the data repository it uses to answer questions.
 
== What should be done ==
 
* We should take a look at the two GND data sets and think of better ones that include and modify these data.
* We should try to find the team for this job. I (Olaf) can get and implement the data for the first 800 lodges. But the project would need an independent team that could organise itself.
 
== Some things one might like to know about lodges ==
* mother lodge
* mother lodge
* ritual (do they change?)
* ritual (do they change?)
* the various historical names (some lodges change their names every couple of years) (would it make sense to create individual objects under the different names and to link them?)
* the various historical names with specific information about name changes.  
* members (we can actually run SPARQL queries for the existing 94 lodges on FactGrid for first 18th-century results but the are not yet satisfying). The final project should tell us something about the connections of members, about their flow and about other affiliations they had. (Think of the Illuminati and how they pervaded and infiltrated lodges...)
* location (city)
* location (city)
* changing addresses over time
* changing addresses/buildings over time
* Worshipful Master/ Meister vom Stuhl with dates in office
* offices
 
* members
== What exactly constitutes genealogical information in the case of lodges? ==
* objects of interest (if lodges want to offer insight into interesting historical possessions).  
 
We should have an idea of the possible connections two lodges can have in order to give a good data model that will present nice trees of historical connections.
 
* Mother lodge
* Ritual
* ...


== Some links ==
== Some links ==

Revision as of 17:19, 29 July 2019

Masonic chart, 1846

The aim: To give a Genealogy of all the lodges that ever existed. When did they start? How were they affiliated?

If we had the framework we could think of involving lodges worldwide to gather membership information and to understand the development of the whole ensemble.

Think of a tree of all the lodges. Think of an animation that shows how Freemasonry spread over the globe. Think of a project which lodges worldwide can connect to and to which they can add virtual items like information of documents and objects in their possession.

The problem poses a load of things to think about.

799 data sets to cope with

In the course of 2019 we will implement millions of GND data sets. Among them data sets such as these:

We should be able to go beyond the 799 and we should be able to provide a couple of more interesting statements than those made here with the help of all the lodges world wide.

Momentum

We should have a team of at least 10 people who could consider what one should know about a lodge and how lodges evolved in genealogies and systems. We would need people with

  • Masonic connections who could win history minded people in other lodges as partners.
  • knowledge about web applications who could create an interface that focuses on masonic FactGrid information. The interface to create allows you to search lodges and documents. It should have visualisations such as a generate a pedigree for the specific lodge.
  • the necessary historical knowledge to understand what such a database should be able to offer.

The site top create could run on any server - we would just be the data repository it uses to answer questions.

What should be done

  • We should take a look at the two GND data sets and think of better ones that include and modify these data.
  • We should try to find the team for this job. I (Olaf) can get and implement the data for the first 800 lodges. But the project would need an independent team that could organise itself.

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).

Some links

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