A first attempt at mapping regular events and festivals: link Most festivals are shown here in blue, but the locations for the Mod are distinguished, appearing in orange. Read more
Festivals
Category: ScottishCulture
Scottish Culture
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