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Merry-go-round

From time to time, I have noticed that Wikidata records for Scottish Football teams are often wildly out of date about the manager.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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 07 July 2025 Category ScottishHistory Tags Wikidata Wikipedia

Canmore Trove

Now that Canmore has been replaced by trove.scot, as previewed here, the result looks unfortunate.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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 25 June 2025 Category ScottishHistory Tags Wikipedia

Co-operative societies

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
adminAuthor admin Posted on 27 February 2024 Category ScottishHistory Tags SPARQL Wikidata Wikipedia Civics

18th century societies

18th century societies
Recently I ported Wikipedia information about members of 18th century Scottish clubs and societies into wikidata with a view to using SPARQL to visualise Enlightenment networks, as shown here. As Read more
adminAuthor admin Posted on 17 December 2023 Category ScottishHistory Tags Wikipedia Wikidata SPARQL C18 societies

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