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Message Board 5 July 2021 Für deutschsprachige Wikibase-Interessenten veranstalte ich in der Reihe Praxislabor (die Workshops des für 2020 geplanten Historikertag ersetzt) einen halbtägigen Workshop. Daten kollaborativ handhaben: FactGrid, eine Wikibase Plattform für Historiker*innen. Die Veranstaltung wird von kleinen Datensätzen leben, die einzelne Teilnehmer im Vorfeld generieren werden. Zum Workshop gehört eine eigene Seite hier im FactGrid: Praxislabor: Daten kollaborativ handhaben: FactGrid, eine Wikibase Plattform für Historiker*innen --Olaf Simons (talk) 07:14, 29 May 2021 (CEST) 11 June 2021 — A new section started in the Project space. The topic will be Early Modern religious dissent. We should become able to explore how these movements fused (if the did) into the word of Masonic organisations, student fraternities and esoteric cures as sold by the Mesmerists, which we have been mapping so far. This is the FactGrid:Lionel Laborie, The "French Prophets" project page with first searches on the 667 adherents of the early 18th-century group. All links will, as always, be welcome. --Olaf Simons (talk) 13:41, 11 June 2021 (CEST) 30 May 2021 — New on the project blog: Charles Faulhaber's post on the upcoming joint venture with the multilingual PhiloBiblon Project. FactGrid will learn Spanish and Portuguese and we will step into the Middle Ages and the world of the medieval book production. --Olaf Simons (talk) 07:28, 31 May 2021 (CEST) 25 May 2021 — 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.

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• FactGrid FAQ for more information on why you might love to use FactGrid as your research platform
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The FactGrid database is an open collaborative and multilingual project provided by — as of July 2021 — 190 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:

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