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Magnus Manske, Reasonator, Things needed

Needed thing #3: An attractive Interface for browsing and reading Wikibase information

8. Juni 2018 Keine Kommentare

The Wikibase software has been designed to serve underneath the +200 Wikipedia installations, it is offering its services in SPARQL-queries but it does not aim at people interested in the facts collected on an item of knowledge.

Magnus Manske’s Reasonator is the tool which turns Wikidata information almost into articles – in any language. The page on Q13339, Johann Sebastian Bach is, as it turns out, in many ways superior to the 200+ competing Wikipedia articles on Bach: It has one sinle source to be edited by users world wide. It shows at a single view what it has to offer – you do not crawl through well balanced sentences, which might not at all offer the information you are looking for.

But the Reasonator has its fundamental drawbacks: Technically you are on a platform that uses Wikidata information – not on the global Wikidata interface. Practically and organisation-wise you are on extraterritorial space when it comes to future developments. The Reasonator is Magnus Manske’s dream child. It is not part of the package Wikimedia will develop as the universal Wikidata front-end (because any such front-end would immediately rival the 200+ Wikipedias?

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/964

ludwig wittgenstein, Things needed

Needed thing #2: A logo and our own design

8. Juni 2018 Keine Kommentare

The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus 6.4321

The FactGrid still needs its own cohesive design. The name is a modest allusion to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and his idea that we see the world through a grid of factual statements. It was not that difficult to correlate this thought with images – looking backwards and a across cultural borders. The blog’s main page uses these changing images with humour and as inspiration.

That, however, is all we have at the moment – leaving a lot to be done. The different software platforms – our blog (WordPress), the Wikibase installation (Wikimedia design), and Magnus’ Manske’s Reasonator child do not really go together design-wise.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/957

Things needed

Needed thing # 1: The technical solution that enables researchers to create input forms

4. Juni 2018 Keine Kommentare

Wikidata’s Wikibase installation has been filled almost entirely in massive automated data inputs. That is probably why input forms were not exactly the first priority.

Our database will focus on researchers and regular users whose tasks will call for modules which they can get used to. The historian might sit in an archive with the task to register some 200 documents of a law case. The documents have to be dated, information about authors, the institutions, and addressees has to given on each document. The private user might want to give biographical information about a distant family member with the aim to augment his family’s genealogy. Both are used to input forms. They will never have heard of “triples”, their ideas of “properties” will be inappropriate, they will not be able to use complex Excel-commands in order to prepare an input via QuickStatements.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/931

General, QuickStatements, Schwedenkiste, The Illuminati files online

2018-06-11/12: Daten in das FactGrid füllen — praktischer Workshop der Gothaer Forschungsstelle Illuminatenforschung

7. Mai 2018 Keine Kommentare

Liebe Erfurter und Gothaer FactGrid Interessierte,

in den letzten Wochen arbeiteten wir im engeren Kreis an der Einrichtung einer WikiBase-Instanz (der Software hinter dem Wikidata-Projekt) auf dem Server der Uni Erfurt: https://database.factgrid.de/

Es gab einige technische Schwierigkeiten bei der Anpassung der Tools an die neue Server-Umgebung zu bewältigen, doch sind wir seit einigen Tagen soweit, dass die Grundausstattung läuft: QuickStatements steht für den massenweisen Datenimport zur Verfügung. Der Query Service läuft, so dass wir SPARQL-Abfragen von Daten hinkriegen. Das Design (Logo etc.) ist noch offen – was im Moment den Vorteil hat, dass alles wie bei Wikidata aussieht. Matti Blume arbeitet daran, die Datensätze des Illuminatenprojektes für den Projektstart in die Datenbank zu füllen.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/884

design, How to use SPARQL, Tools

SPARQL — the Query Language

4. Mai 2018 Keine Kommentare

Wikibase installations are – at this moment – best explored with the SPARQL query language. Specialists are able to write queries in SPARQL but this is not what you would do as a beginner. Most people take a look at an example of a query and then modify the example to suit heir needs.

Here just briefly for the beginning a couple of useful links.

Above: SPARQL in 11 minutes. Note: this video is not specifically on using the Wikibase software.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/866

European Research Council, General, Rhizome

2018-04-23/25, Antwerp — the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop

3. Mai 2018 Keine Kommentare

Thanks to the initiative of Andra Waagmeester and Daniel Mietchen (who are part of the community that is behind Wikidata incorporating such staggering inputs as the complete human genome) we ventured a first workshop of projects that have begun to use the Wikibase software outside the original Wikimedia/Wikidata environment. The event at Antwerp’s fifteenth-century hospice, now the Elzenveld hotel and conference centre, was generously funded by the European Research Council. The participants came from fields which only this software would bring together: the natural sciences, the humanities, the social and political sphere and Wikimedia. Wikidata, the Wikimedia project in the centre, is about to become the broadest compound in the world of collaboratively produced knowledge. Starting with interconnecting the 290 Wikipedias all around the globe it became able to switch between all their respective languages. Knowing all the equivalents of articles as well as all the unique items which individual communities created on their Wikipedias Wikidata is closer than any comparable compound to theoretically knowing what a father, a cat, a religion or a novel structurally is. The multilingual competence is matched only by the database’s openness to all sorts of items: Wikidata is dealing with bacteria, the Mona Lisa, Chinese politicians, obscure philosophical concepts, mathematical equations, individual genes, geo-coordinates, and all sorts of properties and qualities these items can gain. The software is open to the flexible creation of ever new properties interconnecting the bricks. You can read Wikidata on the Reasonator and you can explore Wikidata with machines. It is open to logic, accessible in ever new SPARQL queries – the search language worth learning.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/835

General, QuickStatements, SPARQL, Wikibase

The (sobering) status report of Friday 13, April 2018

13. April 2018 Keine Kommentare

[A version of this was originally posted here]

[Postscript Friday 4, May 2018: SPARQL is on, we are in the middle of our first more massiv data input]

Four months have passed since the kick-off workshop shop, and the FactGrid project has run into its first unexpected problems. We are confident that we will solve the – primarily technical – issues, but one of the lessons we have learned so far is that we will need the support of a larger community in order to situate the FactGrid Project with more impact in the Wikidata-community.

What do we want to achieve? We are still trying to launch a Wikibase installation with the aim to offer a platform for original research. Data hosted on the FactGrid will be free to be used by Wikidata. Data will leave the FactGrid database, however, with the personal authorisations of research which Wikidata is not be able to generate.

Digital humanities projects interested to work on the collective FactGrid platform will sponsor software developments with their respective DH-funding.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/817