Lecture: Wikidata for (Legal) Historians, 10.12.24, mpilhlt (Frankfurt) and online

We invite you to the lecture, organised as part of the seminar series ‘Legal History Meets Digital Humanities’ at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and held in a hybrid format on 10 December 2024 from 13:00 to 17:00.

The presentation held by Bärbel Kröger and Dr. Jörg Wettlaufer from Göttingen Academy of Science and Humanities in Lower Saxony introduces the use of the Wikidata platform, which serves as a central knowledge database in the field of Linked Open Data. The underlying Semantic Web standard will also be briefly explained to provide an understanding of the platform’s functionality and possibilities. In the second part of the lecture, the FactGrid platform will be presented. While it uses the same technical infrastructure as Wikidata, it focuses on the knowledge domain of historical research. Using practical examples from ecclesiastical history, the potential of both platforms, Wikidata and FactGrid, will be explored. The lecture aims to spark a discussion on how legal historical research might also benefit from open and interconnected datasets.

Registration and more details: https://plan.events.mpg.de/event/381/