This announcement changes the territory for references common across Wikipedia and Wikidata. In terms of English Wikipedia, there are templated references for both Canmore and HES, which can be Read more
Tag: ScottishHistory
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
Rail disasters
The Wikipedia article about Wormit station mentioned a rail crash there in 1955. I looked at other crash articles and their corresponding Wikidata items to obtain the data items appropriate for one 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
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
The web page linked from the headline provides a view of the main populated places in a Council area, with the facility to obtain a list or a map of the Category A listed buildings in that area. Each Read more
Mushrooming: Points and networks
“… try to think your way into the main part of a fungus, the mycelium, a proliferating network of tiny white threads known as hyphae. Decentralised, inquisitive, exploratory and voracious, a mycelial network ranges through soil in search of food. It tangles itself in an intimate scrawl with the roots of plants, exchanging nutrients and sugars with them; it meets with the hyphae of other networks and has mycelial sex; messages from its myriad tips are reported rapidly across the whole network ...”The quotation is from Frances Gooding's article “From its Myriad Tips”, London Review of Books, 20 May 2021. It inspired me to prepare a Presentation pack at the time, whose text is copied here. Read more
Camping coaches at Scottish railway stations
From the 1930s until the 1960s, old railway coaches were used to provide camping accommodation at various stations around the country.
Unfortunately, this is not queryable as a Wikidata Read more
Scottish banking history
A diagram produced earlier this year, summarising the current state of using Wikidata and Sparql to summarise the history of banking in Scotland. It provides a view of who merged with who, and the 3 Read more
Evolution of the Scottish Press
The diagram shows a timeline of Scottish newspapers' by first publication. A lot of these are too below-the-radar for articles on Wikipedia but data is available on Wikidata. Link Though the Read more