[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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