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| Available in | Multiple languages |
| Owner | Gotha Research Centre of The University of Erfurt |
| Editor | FactGrid community |
| URL | https://database.factgrid.de/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required for data input |
| Launched | 11 January 2018 |
FactGrid, a database for historians is a Wikibase instance that provides projects database services with the aim to interconnect research and to research give data a long-term existence on a community driven platform with public support.
The platform was initiated by Olaf Simons in 2017/2018 in a cooperation between the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt and Wikimedia Germany. It s currently (as of February 2024) supported by around 400 users in about 50 projects ranging from Assyriology to Contemporary History. The number of 750.000 database items was passed on 19 February 2024. All services are free and - since March 2023 - financed by the NFDI4Memory consortium of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). The Historical Data Center of Saxony-Anhalt and the NFDI4Memory data connectivity team working there under Katrin Moeller are playing a key role in project support since April 2023.