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PhiloBiblon receives a new grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

9. Mai 2023 Keine Kommentare

We are delighted to announce that PhiloBiblon, a database of the primary sources for the study of medieval Iberia, has received a two-year implementation grant from the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program of the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete the mapping of PhiloBiblon from its almost forty-year-old relational database technology to the Wikibase technology that underlies Wikipedia, Wikidata, and FactGrid. The project will start on the first of July and, Dios mediante, will finish successfully by the end of June 2025.

The fundamental problem is to map the 422,000+ records of PhiloBiblon’s bibliographies with their complexly interrelated relational tables to the triplestore structure of Wikibase. A triplestore relates two Items by means of a Property. Thus a Work is linked to an Author by the Property “written by.”

We received an NEH Foundations grant for this project in 2021, as described in detail in PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept. Over the course of the last two years, the pilot project team, consisting of Charles Faulhaber (PI), Patricia García Sánchez Migallón and Almudena Izquierda (doctores por la UCM), Berkeley undergraduate Spanish and data science majors (Julieta Soto, Serena Bai, Tina Lin, Cassandra Calciano, Martín García Ángel), Max Ziff (data engineer), and Josep Formentí (user interface programmer), with the guidance of Olaf Simons, has analyzed the data structures of PhiloBiblon’s ten relational tables (using BETA for the test cases) and worked out the procedures needed to convert them into triplestore structures.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3196

Bruno Belhoste, DFG, General, Magnus Manske, Markus Krötzsch, Michael Ringgaard, NFDI, NFDI4Memory, Wikibase, Wikidata

FactGrid Goes NFDI

14. November 2022 Keine Kommentare

Friday week before last, we received the news that so many working groups had been eagerly awaiting: the 4Memory consortium (of historical studies) will become part of the Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI), the German National Research Data infrastructure.

This is exciting news for FactGrid, just weeks before its fifth birthday. We will be acting as an official repository for historical data in the upcoming NFDI structure. German projects can now make a good case that FactGrid is the optimal platform for their data.

Changing the rules of our present research data management

The German National Research Data Infrastructure aims to bring transparency and sustainability to all research fields, from microbiology to computational linguistics. Whether researchers are still collecting data entirely for themselves in private Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, or whether they are working on digital platforms that are more or less designed like conventional books, designed to be read and looked at – they will face new questions in their research grant applications: Do they produce data? Do they correct publicly available data? If so, the new questions will be: How do they make sure that others can actually work with their data?

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3104

Federation, General, Linked Open Data, SPARQL, Wikidata

FactGrid wants to become part of the Wikidata federation ecosystem

30. Mai 2022 Keine Kommentare

Linked, open data and Knowledge Graphs show their full power when they are connected. In technical terms this is called federation. A query across multiple data sources is then a federated query.

For example, an item from FactGrid is linked to the corresponding item in Wikidata to retrieve complementary information. This way, there is no need for redundant data in two different data sources, which in case of doubt are not synchronized.

A very simple query shows the partners of Magnus Hirschfeld, a renowned sexologist in the 1920s, from Wikidata as well as DBpedia, a knowledge graph derived from Wikipedia. It shows: Both data sources have partners, but different ones and both are correct. Only a federated query gives the full picture.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2922

General

FactGrid Cuneiform Project

12. Mai 2022 Keine Kommentare

FactGrid Cuneiform Project

You are not looking at a sheet of cookies or ceramic tiles (in slide 2), these are a group of tablets from the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara, Turkey. They come from an ancient city called Kanesh, in Kültepe Turkey, in the region of Cappadocia, where more than 20k tablets have been recovered (so far) which date between 1930-1730 B.C. Each of these tablets record the names, places, and notable objects of a world once forgotten to history, but one that we can now restore and preserve through digital tools and methods. But before diving into the digital world of these objects, let’s talk briefly about why these objects are in need of protection and digital preservation.

Why build a multi-modal Linked Data Model for Cuneiform Languages?

There are numerous reasons why building a linked data model will be helpful to many different parties.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2833

Animalischer Magnetismus, Christian Gottlob von Voigt, Ernst II. von Sachsen Gotha-Altenburg ERnst II. von Sachsen Gotha-Altenburg, General, Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard, Illuminaten, Jesuiten, Jesuitismus, Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, Julia Mös, mesmerismus, Rosenkreuzer

Freimaurer, Illuminaten, Rosenkreuzer, Jesuiten, Alchemisten, Mesmeristen… – die verloren gegangene Bibliothek des letzten illuminatischen Ordensprovinzials

10. Mai 2022 Keine Kommentare

Johann Joachim Christoph Bode starb am 13. Dezember 1793, zwei Stunden vor Mitternacht – wohl an den Folgen der Zahn- und Kieferentzündungen, die ihm seit Jahren mit Anfällen von „Flußfieber und Zahnschmerzen” zu schaffen machten. Damit kam in Gang, was 1787/88 entschieden worden war.

Im Herbst 1787 hatte Bode von Weimar aus wieder einmal Gotha besucht. Seine Arbeit des letzten halben Jahrzehnts lag in Trümmern. Noch im Sommer hatte er sich Paris bemüht, die Illuminaten aus der Schusslinie zu ziehen: „Philaleten“ sollten sie in Zukunft wieder geheim heißen. Seit 1785 war mit „Illuminaten“ kein Geheimnis mehr zu machen. Bayerns Staat hatte alle Geheimorden und insbesondere diesen verboten. Bode hatte dessen ungeachtet als Provinzial „Ioniens“ (Obersachsens) weiterhin Mitglieder aufgenommen.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2835

General

14.4.2022: Sich beim Forschen über die Schulter sehen lassen? — Isabella Schwaderers Erkundungen zu den Mitgliedern der Schopenhauergesellschaft

13. April 2022 Keine Kommentare

Am Donnerstag, den 14. April 2022, 13:30 (CET) spricht in unserer Serie Erfurter Coffee Talks Isabella Schwaderer über Erfahrungen aus ihrem Projekt “Netzwerkverbindungen in der Schopenhauergesellschaft 1912/1913” — ein Projekt, dessen Recherchen sie im FactGrid datebankgestützt durchführte.

Kann man es riskieren, auf einer Plattform, auf der alle Daten unmittelbar offen zugänglich sind, die eigene gerade erst angefangene Forschung laufen zu lassen? Wie funktioniert die Organisation in einer unter Kollegen international organisierten Plattform? Wie ist die Software in der Handhabung? Was ist praktisch? Was ist unpraktisch? Was gewinnt man — erwartet oder unerwartet?

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2778

FactGrid, FactGrid Viewer;, General

Browsing FactGrid with the FactGrid Viewer

6. April 2022 Keine Kommentare

FactGrid is a wonderful, free and collaborative resource that the University of Erfurt in Germany has made available to the international historical community. Many potential users are unfortunately put off by its apparent complexity. It is true that an initiation is necessary to exploit all its possibilities. In the future, new tools should make it much easier to use. In the meantime, it is possible to use a certain number of tools that already exist on the platform.

Here I will introduce the FactGrid Viewer tool. A first use of FactGrid is simply to search and browse the database. This is accessible to everyone, without the need to log in. However, the user interface (which is that of Wikidata) is not very engaging. In fact, it looks more like an input mask than a user interface.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2684

General, Graph database, How to use SPARQL, Query Helper, SPARQL, Things needed, Tools, Visual SPARQL Editor, Wikibase, Wikidata

Imagine a Graph Query Helper for Graph Databases

4. April 2022 Keine Kommentare

auf Deutsch

FactGrid is a graph database. If you run searches in such a database you should rather not think of a resource filled with tables (of people, places, organizations, documents…) that relate to each other but of something more spatial more geometric.

Think of your own knowledge. You will not be able to give a table of all the names that have a meaning in your knowledge or of all the places related to these names. Our knowledge is more like a web of interrelated objects. Nicolaus Copernicus? Is the man who wrote De revolutionibus. What else do you know?

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2636

General

9 x FactGrid, Coffee Talk Serie an der Universität Erfurt, 14. April – 9. Juni 2022, Donnerstags 13:30

29. März 2022 Keine Kommentare

Die Universität Erfurt lud uns ein, im kommenden Sommersemester eine online Coffee-Talk Serie zum FactGrid als kollaborativer Forschungsplattform zu veranstalten. Neun Themenschwerpunkte haben wir ausgesucht. Die Veranstaltungen sollen kurz und für die Mittagspause zum Hineinschnuppern gemacht sein. Lassen Sie sich inspirieren. Wir bieten eine 15minütige Erkundung mit jeweils offener Fragerunde.

Das Link zur Veranstaltung erhalten Sie für eine Mail an olaf.simons@uni-erfurt.de

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2571

Catharina Elisabeth Velten, General, Hochdeutsche Hofcomödianten, Veltensche Truppe, Wanderbühnen

Twenty years on tour: The Velten Theatre Company’s journeys from 1693 to 1712

21. März 2022 Keine Kommentare

This may come as a postscript to the previous or as a sneak preview of upcoming projects that will deal with theatre and its history. An interesting topic with all the networks of actors knitting their personal ties in ever changing ensembles of travelling companies that visit cities and courts, of emerging houses with standing ensembles, of authors, of plays and of various roles – and then again of actors who would play certain types in various plays…

The following itinerary follows one of these groups, the so called Hochdeutsche Hofcomödianten or the Velten Company, named after the Veltens, a couple who were the directors between 1670s and 1712.

The image catches all the journeys this group took between 1693 and 1712, the years when Catharina Elisabeth Velten was the company’s director. The FactGrid viewer gives the list of the known stays as Günther Hansen noted them in his Formen der Commedia dell’ Arte in Deutschland (1968), p. 269.

The image is interesting as it captures a structural characteristic of the itineraries which theatre companies were likely to produce back in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/2559

Changing the rules of our present research data management

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