FactGrid:About
FactGrid is a Wikibase instance initiated by the Gotha Research Centre in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. and hosted at the Thuringian State and University Lirary ThULB in Jena. The costs for the domain operation are borne by the Gotha Research Center and since 2023 by the NFDI. The University of Erfurt is guaranteeing the operation in open project duration. Project users incur no additional costs when entering data records and using them in database queries, such as downloading data. The initiators endeavor to provide the resource with GND and Wikidata data so that future research projects on the platform can concentrate on developing their own data in the environment of publicly available data.
FactGrid wants to provide historical research with a platform that is used collectively and remains in development, regardless of the life cycles which individual have to respect. The software is open source and will be widely used in the future — so far the best promise to remain in development in the long run. We aim to offer data the same advantages on FactGrid: We encourage project participants to mark FactGrid datasets to which they contributed as part of their work while we agree to bring data into open circulation under the CC0 license. We have no objections against the further use of FactGrid data in projects on the platform and outside. All editing processes on the platform are versioned and linked to the respective editors. It is expressly in the project interest that user interfaces are created inside and outside the platform, that access FactGrid data freely and innovatively, and that make them usable in a wide variety of project contexts and thus further develop them.
Imprint information
The factgrid.de pages are hosted by the data center of the University of Erfurt. The project blog is moderated by the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, a corporation under public law headed and legally represented by Prof. Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, the President of the University of Erfurt.
Postal address:
University of Erfurt
Nordhauser Strasse 63
99089 Erfurt
Telephone: +49 361 737-5000
Fax: +49 361 737-5019
VAT number: DE 811 627 407
The technical management is in the hands of
Dr. Olaf Simons
Gotha Research Center at the University of Erfurt
Am Schloßberg 2
99867 Gotha
+ 49-361-737-1722
olaf.simons@uni-erfurt.de