A work-in-progress is to develop the data on fountains and monuments in Scottish towns. Often, one finds that photos exist in Commons but have not been linked to the Wikidata item which is based on Read more

After reading about the Cheapside Street fire and thinking about other serious fires in Glasgow's history , I put together a Wikidata SPARQL / Openstreetmap query on fires, explosions and other Read more

After looking at obscure foodstuffs in Scottish history I created a Wikidata /SPARQL query to display Scottish Food items. The image shows such a good healthy diet! The graph is clickable for Read more

A diagram produced earlier this year, summarising the current state of using Wikidata and Sparql to summarise the history of banking in Scotland. It provides a view of who merged with who, and the 3 Read more

The diagram shows a timeline of Scottish newspapers' by first publication. A lot of these are too below-the-radar for articles on Wikipedia but data is available on Wikidata. Link Though the Read more

Recently I ported Wikipedia information about members of 18th century Scottish clubs and societies into wikidata with a view to using SPARQL to visualise Enlightenment networks, as shown here. As Read more