Constructing a query on pieces of public art in Scotland using Wikidata and WikimediaCommons encounters Freedom of Panorama limitations. Sculptures are ok to depict but not painted murals, such as on Read more
Category: ScottishCulture
Scottish Culture
Theatre groups and people
Attempting to diagram theatre groups, with their founders and associated people where these can be identified. Still a work-in-progress. It may be that once more data are populated, this view becomes Read more
Art groups and artists
The changing groupings of artists over time are an example of networks in action. I think graphing these is a good example of the possibilities of using Wikidata to explore affinities. This diagram Read more
Paintings in Scottish galleries
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
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
Scottish foods
After looking at obscure foodstuffs in Scottish history I created a Wikidata /SPARQL query to display Scottish Food items. The image shows such a good healthy diet! The graph is clickable for Read more