FactGrid:Troubleshooting

A knows B / B knows A?

We would like to offer the greatest variety of contact information.

• We are presently presenting some 9.000 documents with information about senders and the respective receivers
• We are listing some 300 events with information about participants
• We could add specific contact information in the form of "A meets B" statements - we could just as well create items for any known meeting.

How do we organise such information in a way that database queries can offer us contact information with the greatest ease? How do we avoid recursive statements ("Person A meets Person B" - do we have to repeat the statement as "Person B meets Person A", and if so, how do we ensure the congruence)?

The same problem is created by membership: we have 1350 Illuminati. Ist to be an Illuminati a personal thing? Is it a thing on the account of the Order - or shall we create 1350 new items for each membership and refer to these - under what P-function?

How to use the Redirect function?

Merging items creates a redirect. Should we use that redirect to lead to targets?

How should we organise items that are not yet fully consolidated?

We will d´face a particular need to organise unconsolidated personal information and a fuzzy search for them: Documents do often just state last names. We have a place, a year, perhaps an occupation but no further information. We will need a system that gives us hints of potential matches.

Recipients 1, 2, 3 - a good idea?

Regular communication from members into the Illuminati Order was a complex thing. Members met one a month in their local Minerval Church and here they handed in their monthly Quibus Licet ("to whom it may concern"), a letter to be firts read by the local superior and to be passed from him to the "Unknown Superiors". The local superior of Gotha would be Christian Georg Helmolt (the first recipient), he would send the entire package of Gotha's "QQLL" (the abbreviation for the plural) to Johann Joachim Christoph Bode in Weimar (recipient 2) who could in turn pass the letters to Gotha's duke Ernest II. (recipient 3 in this case).

In order to link the respective places to which the letters were sent to the recipients I created different respective recipients which could now be spotted in different places.

One could organise this differently. User:Daniel Mietchen proposed to create an item for each transportation process. Would this be clever? How should we organise things with the aim to facilitate searches? --Olaf Simons (talk) 21:42, 6 August 2018 (CEST)

Alternative again proposed by User:Daniel Mietchen: take a look at Wikidata's P1545, series qualifier.

GND Identifyer

Why does it not work like a link as in Wikidata?

Query Service and full years

If we enter full years with the appropriate distinction 1761-00-00etc. - why do we still get a January 1 date?

Item:Q22976 or just Q22976

FactGrid Items have an Item: prefix. We are looking for a place for transcripts and other information. Is it good to create respective pages? Is there an elegant way to use the transcripts in data sets? Wikidata has a function that allows quoting items - via template, can we do that as well?