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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 1 million database items was passed on 13 October 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.