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Welcome!

— on FactGrid, the Wikibase instance for historians, Q17 on the global Wikibase Registry.

Looking at our central goals — we want to offer a free Wikibase installation for historical data filled with a well equipped landscape of norm data to work with — we are still at the beginning. So much we can say after the first two years of the experimental project: The software is bright and cool to operate. The platform has grown above expectation: As of April 2020 it has slightly more than 100 users who have generated some 150,000 database items in a handful of projects, a lot of these items with an unprecedented depth of information. The more massive steps lie, however, still ahead. In 2019 we entered a a joint venture with the German National Library. We are presently working behind the scenes on an input of up to 10 million GND and Wikidata records. You might like to check our blog to learn more about the project with its numerous facets. Visit the project section to meet the individual projects that have begun to use us as a cooperative research platform.

If you do not have an account yet - that is the first thing we should offer (but read our FactGrid:Terms of Service before you contact the technical coordinator).

The present installation is by default in English. If you have an account you can switch the interface to any language you prefer. What is far more important: The software is ready to produce information in practically any language — not divided by language barriers but bringing these languages together on its all its items and the properties working between the items. The different project on board have taught FactGrid to present information simultaneously in English, German and French. You can switch between these languages when in the SPARQL search interface.

The interface is not where we would like to have it. We are planning to offer all our data records on multilingual Reasonator pages. Also the search functions are not where we want to have them. Wikidata is presently the big project that shows how to access a Wikibase installation. Read our FactGrid FAQ – Why should I use the FactGrid for my research project? to get an idea what the site can do for you and visit the FactGrid:Projects-page for first presentations of individual projects. The era of broad usage will begin only with the GND-input. The platform will be a relaxed space to test its potentials until then.

      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@uni-erfurt.de


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