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

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

The Easter weekend is when some volunteer-run local museums in Scotland open for the summer, so I generated a map to see which are on Wikidata This is a clickable map of local and specialist museums Read more

Seeing in this OTD post the range of stations in South Lanarkshire which were closed on 4 January 1965, it was striking how much impact this must have made on the isolation of these communities. Read more

After a conversation about the decline in Scotland's fishing industry, I posted to Mastodon about the lack of Wikidata to support analysis of places by current or former industry. I am suggesting Read more

I began looking at the Wikidata information on hydro-electric power stations, whose development was a feature of 20th century Scotland. Some of the date information is scant, and some is Read more

Adjusting the Wikidata records for those executed after the 1820 Radical War led me to a broader query on the grim topic of people in Scotland who were subjected to judicial killing. Here is a map Read more

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

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

From the 1750s until around 40 years ago, Scotland was marked by clusters of iron, steel and manufacturing heavy industries. Little remains. Attempting to map these using Wikidata and SPARQL shows Read more