Although currently experimenting with a Gaidhlig version of the Scottish history bot, it was chance that I noticed that Wikidata for various locations which were originally loaded from HES/Canmore Read more

The migration of the Bot from botsin.space to mastodon.scot has gone without mishap, confirming the Fediverse portability principle. After doing a Create Account and email confirmation on the target Read more

Reviewing the Bot that presents items from Scottish History using Wikidata, it occurs to me that a relatively simple extension could exploit the inter-language labels in Wikidata to generate a Read more

The impending closure of botsin.space forces me to rethink what kind of service is appropriate for posting the daily Scottish Lost Places items. These posts are the outcome of a program which queries Read more

I started trying out ChartsCSS for visualising the data returned from staged queries in the browser, for example starting with selection from a pull-down of areas then displaying numeric results for Read more

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

After passing the John Logie Baird statue on the front at Helensburgh, I put together a query on inventors. But, whether seen on a map, a table or a graph, I am not sure this tells anything. What is Read more

After looking at a couple of Articles for Deletion on Wikipedia, I began looking at the information on Wikidata about distilleries, bonded warehouses, etc., and generated a map. Then I began to Read more

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

In the 19th century several Scottish iron foundries became well-known for producing standardised objects, particularly civic fountains and bandstands. This Wikimedia Commons page utilises Listeria Read more