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class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Quote FactGrid-Items with the respective Property:P131 information</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Look_four_sources_in_the_reference_sections_of_the_individual_statements"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Look four sources in the reference sections of the individual statements</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#A_desideratum:_the_automatic_citation_recommendation"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">A desideratum: the automatic citation recommendation</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="All_FactGrid_information_is_CC0_licensed">All FactGrid information is CC0 licensed</span></h2> <p>CC0 allows other users to freely use all data they find, even without further mentioning the platform on which the data were first generated, let alone the researchers that retrieved the information. Commercial use is part of the deal. </p><p>The CC0 decision sounds extremely radical, for why should academic projects, funded by the public sector, allow other projects to make financial profit with their work? And: would we not spread the idea of non commercial data use if we demanded that all those using our data have to spread that very ethos? </p><p>WE have chosen the open CC0 license for practical reasons: </p> <ul><li>data you produce might appear in visualisations often mixed with other data — what footnotes would you demand on the lines or dots in a visualisation? Only the CC0 license allows others to visualise your data freely.</li> <li>you will be eager to see your data used by the national libraries or Wikidata — but they could not risk the import (even with source attribution) since they in turn would suddenly become responsible for the fair use of your data in the hands of their users.</li></ul> <p>The liberal CC0 license allows the open and unrestricted use but it does not promote the use of data without source attribution. Those who use FactGrid data are actually eager to quote your sources and to name the projects that contributed to a data set, as it adds quality to the data they will be using in their research. </p><p>It is therefor necessary to make quoting easy — which is not that easy on a platform that does not just offer files of data as packed together by the individual project leaders. </p><p>If you want to quote projects who ran the research add a <a href="/wiki/Property:P131" title="Property:P131">P131</a> query to your search as in this example: </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tinyurl.com/ydlgxumm">All the members of the French Prophets + Research Projects that contributed to this data set</a></li></ul> <p>It is more difficult to grab primary sources on statements, as both the statements and the source attributions will vary (e.g. Primary sources versus secondary literature quoted on a statement). The recommendation is here to look at specific statements and to formulate queries according to your needs and to your specific interest. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Quote_FactGrid-Items_with_the_respective_Property:P131_information">Quote FactGrid-Items with the respective <a href="/wiki/Property:P131" title="Property:P131">Property:P131</a> information</span></h2> <p>If you download database information on items you can download the <a href="/wiki/Property:P131" title="Property:P131">Property:P131</a> with the properties you are capturing. This will give you the information of the research projects that contributed to the respective data set. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Look_four_sources_in_the_reference_sections_of_the_individual_statements">Look four sources in the reference sections of the individual statements</span></h2> <p>If you use FactGrid-information on the level of individual statements check the sources given on these statements and use them on the statement in your further research. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="A_desideratum:_the_automatic_citation_recommendation">A desideratum: the automatic citation recommendation</span></h2> <p>The automatic citation recommendation for data will be a desideratum of the ongoing Wikibase development. </p>    </div> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://database.factgrid.de/w/index.php?title=Help:How_to_quote_data_from_FactGrid&oldid=3584036">https://database.factgrid.de/w/index.php?title=Help:How_to_quote_data_from_FactGrid&oldid=3584036</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Help_Page" title="Category:Help Page">Help Page</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <nav id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal vector-user-menu-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-personal-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Personal tools</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="pt-uls" class="mw-list-item active"><a class="uls-trigger" href="#"><span>English</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Help%3AHow+to+quote+data+from+FactGrid" title="You are encouraged to log in; however, it is not mandatory [o]" accesskey="o"><span>Log in</span></a></li></ul> </div> </nav> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav id="p-namespaces" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-namespaces vector-menu-tabs vector-menu-tabs-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-namespaces-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Namespaces</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="ca-nstab-help" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:How_to_quote_data_from_FactGrid" title="View the help page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Help page</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="new mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Help_talk:How_to_quote_data_from_FactGrid&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="discussion" title="Discussion about the content page (page does not exist) [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Discussion</span></a></li></ul> </div> </nav> <nav id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet vector-menu-dropdown" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" role="navigation" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-variants-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-variants" class="vector-menu-checkbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" /> <label id="p-variants-label" aria-label="Change language variant" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"></ul> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation"> <nav id="p-views" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-views vector-menu-tabs vector-menu-tabs-legacy" aria-labelledby="p-views-label" role="navigation" > <h3 id="p-views-label" class="vector-menu-heading " > <span class="vector-menu-heading-label">Views</span> </h3> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"><li id="ca-view" class="selected mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:How_to_quote_data_from_FactGrid"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-viewsource" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Help:How_to_quote_data_from_FactGrid&action=edit" title="This page is protected.
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