Help:How do I feed data into FactGrid?
You either create the "Item" you need manually or you use QuickStatements to create hundreds or thousands of items in a single input (with about 2 edits per second)
Creating items one by one
To create a single item go to "New Item" in the menue (left) and fill in the input mask. You need
- a "label" - that is how your item is known and searched in the basic site search (input fiel right on top)
- a "description" which will help you to spot your item among others of the same name. If you create a person give * birth and + death dates, at least one place, an occupation or achievement. If your "item" is a document give a brief summary.
You can add "aliasses" if your item shall become known under other name variants as well.
Creating larger numbers of items in a mass input via QuickStatements
There are YouTube videos available that show how you create inputs with QuickStatements
The tough part is to prepare your data. If you add individual statements you will always get autocomplete suggestions as soon as the database already has the item which you want to refer to. If you run a mass input your data will have to be precise: the Q-numbers, dates in the exact format definitions, geo-coordinates in the input standard (which by the way differs from the SPARQL output!) - all this will cause extra work. You will have a lot to do if you come from an old database which allowed text input as here you will find that cells have been filled in various formats and with additional statements which you have to transfer into separate qualifying statements...
Once you have transformed your data in a table format you can run a QuickStatement (left menue) "Version 1" input by filling big blocks of columns into the input field. Press "Version 1" input. As far your data are machine readable you will get a preview of the upcoming input. Look into it to see whether there are "unknown" fields. These will create error message in the input.
You can also transform your input lines into comma-separated-values, csv data. The csv input is faster but it is also tricky as soon as you have double quotes " within text passages.
The following links give detailed help:
- Wikidata QuickStatements help. This page give the exact input commands for Quickstatements
- http://openrefine.org/ Former Google refine, tool to transform information for a data input (does not yet run on FactGrid.