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Archives: April 2025

Local museums

Local museums
The Easter weekend is when some volunteer-run local museums in Scotland open for the summer, so I generated a map to see which are on Wikidata This is a clickable map of local and specialist museums Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 23 April 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags Wikidata

Art spaces

After adding Glasgow Sculpture Studio to Wikidata I began looking at the extent to which it contains data items on other arts initiatives in Scotland. The map view is useful for seeing and fixing Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 15 April 2025 Category ScottishCulture Tags Wikidata

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This blog provides Wikidata and SPARQL views of aspects of Scottish history and culture. These have usually been previously posted to Mastodon (through which comments are welcome).
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