ScottishCulture - SPARQLing Scottish history

Bothy band

I noticed an item for Rowchoish bothy and wondered how many others are on Wikidata. A query on Bothy and Wilderness Hut items in Scotland gives this map. I wouldn't plan a trip relying on this, but Read more

Neeps and tatties

At Burns Night, I noticed a strange phenomenon: the Wikidata item labels neeps as the Scots for turnip but the linked article on the rather challenged sco.wikipedia is to an article entitled Swade Read more

Disentangle and expand

Yesterday I spent some time distinguishing and expanding Wikidata on the various magazines named Edinburgh Review published over the past 280 years. There had been one portmanteau item but with a Read more

Safe labelling

Returning to a previous topic (here and here) about how to use a language without having one's mistakes consumed and regurgitated by LLM crawlers, a way ahead may be to focus on the Gaidhlig news Read more

Scottish artists on Commons

A Petscan query based on Wikipedia Scottish artist categories, filtering for those with a Commons category, gives this. This may be an opportunity to increase the links from Wikipedia articles to Read more

Filling empty Wikidata item

The Petscan described here helped diminish the Scotland-related Wikidata items without any properties down to a manageable size. Taking the category query down to a depth of 4 resulted in a Read more

Public art again

I previously wrote about a tabular query on public art in Scotland which I placed on Wikimedia Commons. While developing more data content, I discovered a Wikidata list/Gallery with creator row Read more

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

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

Small languages vs. large language model churn

The problem of out-of-office email replies from translation services being copy-pasted as the sought translation has been seen in Welsh street signs and Scandinavian hospital signage. Rote Read more