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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 14 Nov. 2022: "FactGrid Goes NFDI" some further thoughts on our blog: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3104 5 Nov. 2022: You can now follow us also on Mastodon: https://openbiblio.social/@FactGrid 4 Nov. 2022: The 4Memory consortium has been accepted in the NFDI community, FactGrid is a "participant", we are now offering our services officially in Germany's growing National Research Data Infrastructure. More on the blog in due time. 14 Apr. 2022: Für alle die Deutsch sprechen. Um 13:30, CET online, wird Isabella Schwaderer unsere Serie Erfurter Uni Coffee Talks mit einem Vortrag zu ihrem Projekt "Die Mitglieder der Schopenhauergesellschaft" eröffnen. Das Link dazu sende ich zu auf Anfrage unter olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com. Hier mehr: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2571 1 Apr. 2022: Blog post with an idea of a Visual Editor for SPARQL Queries auf Deutsch and in English. 16 Feb. 2022: A Session with Josep Formenti (recording here) gave an online demonstration of what it takes to create a docker image Wikibase and how you run API mass inputs into this (or any other Wikibase) installation. 4 Feb. 2022: New on our blog "How to map itineraries on FactGrid — and Robinson Crusoe’s eight voyages"

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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 everyone can now explore with the SPARQL data mining language, at our Query Service. 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 organised by — as of November 2022 — 273 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
mobile: +49-179-5196880
olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com