Digital humanities · Cultural heritage · Research data
Grid Creators builds web applications and data tools for digital humanities projects, cultural institutions and research organisations — from the first sketch through design to long-term operation.
Services
Most projects need more than one of these. They come from a single source, so nothing falls through the gaps between design, build and operation.
Portfolio
Applications and tools in daily use at archives, libraries and research projects. The source code is open to inspection.
Turning research data into national authority records
A conversion tool that transforms person records from FactGrid into GND authority records in MARC 21 format, connecting research data to Germany's national authority file.
Historisches Datenzentrum Sachsen-Anhalt (ISIL DE-4218)
A city walk assembled from linked open data
A bilingual map application for the monuments of Gotha that brings together content from Wikipedia, Wikidata, FactGrid and Wikimedia Commons into a single guided tour.
Architectural and cultural monuments of the city of Gotha
9,789 archival entries matched against a research database
A working environment that reconciles historical electoral registers from 1928 and 1933 with FactGrid, documents every decision, and produces ready-to-use QuickStatements for import.
Holding I-14-149, Aschersleben electoral registers
In the field
Building tools for the humanities means knowing their infrastructures. Grid Creators takes part in the bodies and projects where those infrastructures are made.
Member of the advisory board of FactGrid, the Wikibase database for historical research. Several open tools around FactGrid have grown out of this work.
database.factgrid.deClose collaboration with projects from NFDI4Memory, the German National Research Data Infrastructure consortium for the historically oriented humanities.
4memory.deYears of practice with Wikibase, SPARQL and the tool chains around Wikidata — from data modelling to bulk import.
wikiba.seWhether it is a project website, a data tool, or the question of how research data stays available in the long run — get in touch. A first assessment costs nothing.
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