News
Migration: data.judaicalink.org now resolves to Frankfurt
The DNS entry for data.judaicalink.org has been switched. Requests to our Linked Data addresses
are now answered by the portal of the FID Jewish Studies in Frankfurt.
DFG approves a fourth funding phase for the FID Jewish Studies
The German Research Foundation has approved a new three-year funding phase for the FID Jüdische Studien, with up to two million euros for the central research information infrastructure for Jewish and Israel Studies.
New dataset: normalised occupations
Occupations that previously existed only as free text in the graph are now available as a controlled set of concepts.
Migration: JudaicaLink Labs was containerized
Alongside the move to SOLR, the whole stack behind JudaicaLink Labs was packaged into Docker containers.
Migration: the search has been rebuilt on Apache SOLR
JudaicaLink’s search has been moved from ElasticSearch to Apache SOLR, and all indices have been rebuilt from scratch.
Migration: data ingestion consolidated
The Django applications that load and index datasets have been cleaned up as part of preparing JudaicaLink for the move to Frankfurt.
Announced: Hands-on workshop on Wikidata for Jewish Studies
The FID Jewish Studies and the academy project Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital announced a hands-on Wikidata workshop for 8 and 9 September 2025 at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
The JudaicaLink ontology is now published as a dataset
The vocabulary that describes the knowledge graph is now available in the same way as the data it describes.
Article: Research data in the Area Histories
Kerstin von der Krone describes the research data work of the FID Jewish Studies and its role in NFDI4Memory.
Workshop: Wikidata, GND, GeoNames & Co – authority data in Jewish Studies
The FID Jewish Studies and the academy project Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital held a workshop on the potential of authority data, on 30 September and 1 October 2024 at Goethe University Frankfurt.
