Adding basic Wikidata info for "Edinburgh plague of 1585" got me looking at the level of data for other infectious outbreaks, and finding it a wee bit bare. Even the relatively recent "1964 Aberdeen Read more

A recent International Journal of Digital Curation article discussed the longer term threats to archives, not least what happens to an asset created under project funding? For digital as for physical Read more

I celebrated the extra hour from the clock change by enhancing Wikidata for Scottish scheduled monuments which have a Wikipedia article but no linked image. I used a Petscan query based on the Read more

From time to time, I have noticed that Wikidata records for Scottish Football teams are often wildly out of date about the manager. Sometimes an item's P286 property has only the name of someone who Read more

Now that Canmore has been replaced by trove.scot, as previewed here, the result looks unfortunate. Although HES have retained the same index number for items, they have not provided a soft-landing Read more

Using Petscan to look for Scotland-related Wikidata items which lack any properties (query link) gave a large number of cases. These were alleviated using Quickstatements to add basic properties: Read more

After passing the John Logie Baird statue on the front at Helensburgh, I put together a query on inventors. But, whether seen on a map, a table or a graph, I am not sure this tells anything. What is Read more

Seeking the extent to which Wikidata holds location traces of industrial locations (factories, mills, energy centres, distribution points), while trying to separate slightly from the HES Listed Read more