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
Tag: Civics
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
Pub crawl
Seeing in the Wikidata update that CAMRA Pub IDs had now been loaded as an identifier, I queried for those with the ID in Scotland. It is quite a detailed map, with colour-coding often designating Read more
Postwar rail network contraction
Today was the first actual return from the Bot program which seeks to present On this Day information on the closures of Scottish railway stations. The first former station was Alyth Junction between Read more
Postwar rail network contraction
Creating an on-this-day Mastodon post to highlight the loss of an area service (usually associated with the Beeching cuts) has needed additional activity to extract information held in Wikipedia and Read more
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
Tolbooths
Last July I looked at Tolbooths in Scottish towns, including some Wikidata adjustments to distinguish them, as the data had become fankled with Tollbooths, which are not the same thing. I posted this Read more
Co-operative societies
Attempting to visualise how Co-operative Societies spread then consolidated through the 19th and 20th centuries was only partially successful. The data available were rather lacking. For example, Read more
Observatories
Another visualisation using Wikidata to show aspects of Scottish Culture. This map highlights the various Observatory buildings around Scotland. Query Read more
Road and railway bridges
A SPARQL query to map category A & B listed road and rail bridges in Scotland: SELECT DISTINCT (?showLabel as ?layer) ?loc ?pic ?picLabel ?picURI ?herlistLabel ?cooncilLabel WHERE { SERVICE Read more