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Jour fixe It has been proposed to have a weekly jour fixe on Thursdays 21:30 CET (a time equally (in)convenient to all our teams around the world). FactGrid has an open web channel for such purposes that can be used without further passwords and software downloads. Contact olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com for link details. Message Board Deadline: 15 December 2021: 2 PhD positions in early modern history, 18th and 19th centuries (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) connected to the use of FactGrid as data repository: 1 PhD thesis: Mesmerism in western Switzerland: sociability, mobility, constellations and 1 PhD thesis: An information flow: Mesmerism in Switzerland. See our blog for more information. 14 November 2021 — Bruno Belhoste's first official presentation of his data set Paris to download - a data set of all the Parisian addresses c. 1830. Read his blog post Paris to download. 12 November 2021 — New on our blog Josef Wäges, "(Still not yet) all the members of the Strict Observance", an article about his data set of all the members of the Strict Observance as far as we know them today. 6 October 2021 — EntiTree has made our data available in their project of Wikibase genealogy visualisations - and they are looking forward to reviews of their tool. Visit https://www.entitree.com/factgrid and search an item you are interested in (you can set the language under settings). Select "Chil(ren)" in the pull down menu and widen the visualisation into the past or towards the present by clicking the ˄ and ˅ signs. You can thus expand the information for Veit Bach (Q314207) to this pedigree User:Martin Schibel will be interested in your experiences on the EntiTree Item's talk page. 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 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 October 2021 — 200 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
Schloßberg 2
99867 Gotha
office: +49-361-737-1722
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olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com