Seeking the extent to which Wikidata holds location traces of industrial locations (factories, mills, energy centres, distribution points), while trying to separate slightly from the HES Listed Read more

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

There is a Wikipedia page here which indicates that sundials in Scotland had features distinct from those elsewhere. Here is a query which maps sundials across the country. Read more

I remembered a page I previously created on Commons, which provides a view of paintings in Scottish public galleries: link. It is based on a Wikidata SPARQL query, which ListeriaBot runs every few Read more

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

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

Although the focus here is on using Wikidata to visualise / understand aspects of the historical cultural environment in Scotland, this also leads into side-exploration of other data /visualisations Read more

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