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Archives: February 2024

Co-operative societies

Co-operative societies
Attempting to visualise how Co-operative Societies spread then consolidated through the 19th and 20th centuries was only partially successful. The data available were rather lacking. For example, Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 27 February 2024 Category ScottishHistory Tags SPARQL Wikidata Wikipedia Civics

Observatories

Observatories
Another visualisation using Wikidata to show aspects of Scottish Culture. This map highlights the various Observatory buildings around Scotland. Query Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 19 February 2024 Category ScottishHistory Tags SPARQL Wikidata Civics map

Road and railway bridges

A SPARQL query to map category A & B listed road and rail bridges in Scotland: SELECT DISTINCT (?showLabel as ?layer) ?loc ?pic ?picLabel ?picURI ?herlistLabel ?cooncilLabel WHERE { SERVICE Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 17 February 2024 Category ScottishInfrastructure Tags SPARQL Wikidata ScottishHistory Civics map

Querying Scottish Government data

Although the focus here is on using Wikidata to visualise / understand aspects of the historical cultural environment in Scotland, this also leads into side-exploration of other data /visualisations Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 14 February 2024 Category ScottishInfrastructure Tags SPARQL

Mechanics Institutes

Mechanics Institutes
As an experiment on whether affinity networks and inspirations can be explored using Wikidata, I created a small query capturing people and publications around the coming together of mechanics' Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 13 February 2024 Category ScottishHistory Tags SPARQL Wikidata

Mapping Scotland's hospitals

Mapping Scotland's hospitals
Seeking to create a view of hospitals across Scotland I found Wikidata a wee bit under-developed, with some but not all NHS Boards having hospitals associated, some but not all summarising their area Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 12 February 2024 Category ScottishInfrastructure Tags SPARQL Wikidata Civics map

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