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
Tag: Wikidata
Mechanics Institutes
As an experiment on whether affinity networks and inspirations can be explored using Wikidata, I created a small query capturing people and publications around the coming together of mechanics' Read more
Mapping Scotland's hospitals
Seeking to create a view of hospitals across Scotland I found Wikidata a wee bit under-developed, with some but not all NHS Boards having hospitals associated, some but not all summarising their area 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
Looking for Scotland
Querying Wikidata on Scottish topics can be awkward, because it tends not to be represented as a Country / sovereign state (wdt:P17) in item properties but more often (at best) as an administrative Read more
Monumental street furniture
A work-in-progress is to develop the data on fountains and monuments in Scottish towns. Often, one finds that photos exist in Commons but have not been linked to the Wikidata item which is based on Read more
Fires and other disasters in Glasgow
After reading about the Cheapside Street fire and thinking about other serious fires in Glasgow's history , I put together a Wikidata SPARQL / Openstreetmap query on fires, explosions and other 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
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