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
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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
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
Observatories
Another visualisation using Wikidata to show aspects of Scottish Culture. This map highlights the various Observatory buildings around Scotland. Query Read more
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
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
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
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