Factograf Adds Articles on Over 13,000 Christian Saints in 12 Languages
The multilingual encyclopedia Factograf has published its own articles on more than 13,000 Christian saints from all denominations and branches, each available in 12 languages.
The multilingual encyclopedia Factograf has published its own articles on more than 13,000 Christian saints from all denominations and branches of Christianity. Each article is available in 12 languages, which adds up to about 157,000 language versions. Saints make up the largest section of the library, and this body of work is one of the project's most extensive contributions to the subject of religion.
Overall, the library contains about 20,000 articles on saints, presented in more than 235,000 language versions. The languages cover English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish and French, as well as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Japanese and Chinese. Besides saints, a separate section covers about 4,400 major topics of the year, showing how the project combines historical figures with contemporary issues.
The articles are generated by the Factograf system itself, based on web sources and documents. The process includes three stages: analysis of sources, consolidation of the information found, and publication in a single, easy-to-read format. The project's motto, "Making the encyclopedia readable," reflects its main goal: turning a vast body of knowledge into text that is understandable to an ordinary reader who is not a specialist in church history or hagiography.
Materials about saints have already found use beyond the encyclopedia itself. The articles appear in the saints calendar of the Christian platform D.O.M., and the search service Chakloon Net runs on Factograf data. In this way, the same information serves both everyday reading and searching across a broad database.
Readers can also take part in the library's work: they may write their own articles and suggest edits to articles already published. This keeps the project open to audience participation and allows the materials to be supplemented as new information becomes available.
Factograf belongs to Haydamax Laboratory, a startup unit of the Haydamax holding. The publication covers all Christian denominations and branches, making the library one of the notable digital reference works on the Christian tradition in a multilingual format.
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