SPARQLing Scottish history - Aspects of Scottish history and culture using Wikidata and SPARQL

Capital punishment

Adjusting the Wikidata records for those executed after the 1820 Radical War led me to a broader query on the grim topic of people in Scotland who were subjected to judicial killing. Here is a map Read more

Industrial past

Seeking the extent to which Wikidata holds location traces of industrial locations (factories, mills, energy centres, distribution points), while trying to separate slightly from the HES Listed Read more

Theatre groups and people

Attempting to diagram theatre groups, with their founders and associated people where these can be identified. Still a work-in-progress. It may be that once more data are populated, this view becomes Read more

Art groups and artists

The changing groupings of artists over time are an example of networks in action. I think graphing these is a good example of the possibilities of using Wikidata to explore affinities. This diagram Read more

Rail disasters

The Wikipedia article about Wormit station mentioned a rail crash there in 1955. I looked at other crash articles and their corresponding Wikidata items to obtain the data items appropriate for one Read more

Sundials

There is a Wikipedia page here which indicates that sundials in Scotland had features distinct from those elsewhere. Here is a query which maps sundials across the country. Read more

Paintings in Scottish galleries

I remembered a page I previously created on Commons, which provides a view of paintings in Scottish public galleries: link. It is based on a Wikidata SPARQL query, which ListeriaBot runs every few Read more

Industrial past

From the 1750s until around 40 years ago, Scotland was marked by clusters of iron, steel and manufacturing heavy industries. Little remains. Attempting to map these using Wikidata and SPARQL shows Read more

Scottish foods (again)

Since my previous post and graphic about Scottish foodstuffs, I noticed that Camp Coffee was missing - and having noticed that, realised that Irn Bru was also missing. Such important parts of the Read more

Tolbooths

Last July I looked at Tolbooths in Scottish towns, including some Wikidata adjustments to distinguish them, as the data had become fankled with Tollbooths, which are not the same thing. I posted this Read more