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Message Board FactGrid has reached Q250000, read our post on the event on the project blog: A Quarter of a Million Items on FactGrid – just a brief reflection --Olaf Simons (talk) 00:11, 29 May 2021 (CEST)

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on the FactGrid database, a project of the Gotha Research Centre Germany operated by the data lab of the University of Erfurt. With the support of Wikimedia Germany we are using a MediaWiki with Wikidata's “wikibase” extension. Our main product are data which we collect on “items” such as these:

• Adam Weishaupt
• Paris

You will need to be logged in to see the “add statement” link with which you can add information in the form of triple based machine readable claims — which can now be explored with a data mining language, SPARQL, at our SPARQL Endpoint. All FactGrid data are CC0-licensed. You can download any search in various data formats with the aim to explore FactGrid data in other software environments or visualise searches with various tools on our site.

Visit our

• FactGrid FAQ for more information on why you might love to use FactGrid as your research platform
• Help Section for further assistance
• Terms of Service if you want to have an account on FactGrid
• Project Section to take a look at work done on the collective platform

The FactGrid database is an open collaborative and multilingual project provided by — as of May 2021 — 175 participants from all over the world. If you are looking for a site to present research data and keep them in the process of further research — the FactGrid database might be a cool candidate. For more information and account details contact:

Dr. Olaf Simons
Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt
Am Schloßberg 2
99867 Gotha
office: +49-361-737-1722
mobile: +49-179-5196880
olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com

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