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From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories

Open Access
|Feb 2026

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Women of Scotland schema for uploads via OpenRefine, specifically for the memorials.

WIKIDATA STATEMENT LABELWIKIDATA PROPERTY (NUMERICAL VALUE)DESCRIPTION
Women of Scotland memorial IDP8048The Women of Scotland project identifier for a memorial to a woman in Scotland
Coordinate locationP625Coordinates of the subject
Instance ofP31The class of which this subject is a particular example and member. For example, St Margaret’s Chapel is an instance of a memorial
DepictsP180Entity visually depicted in an image
Made from materialP186Material the subject is made of or derived from
Historic countyP7959Traditional, geographical division of Great Britain and Ireland
Table 2

Women of Scotland schema for uploads via OpenRefine, specifically for the subject(s) commemorated by the memorial.

WIKIDATA STATEMENT LABELWIKIDATA PROPERTY (NUMERICAL VALUE)DESCRIPTION
Women of Scotland subject IDP8050Subject identifier for a woman in the Women of Scotland project
Instance ofP31The class of which this subject is a particular example and member. For example, Isabella Elder is an instance of a human
Table 3

Scottish Brick History schema for uploads via OpenRefine. Country (Wikidata property P17) was marked as United Kingdom (Wikidata item number Q145) on all entries.

WIKIDATA STATEMENT LABELWIKIDATA PROPERTY (NUMERICAL VALUE)DESCRIPTION
Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks IDP8700Scottish Brick History project identifier for a brick or tile works in Scotland, without any trailing slash
InceptionP571Date or point in time when the organisation/object was founded/created
Date of official closureP3999Date of official closure of a building or event
Canmore IDP718Identifier in the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland’s Canmore database
Coordinate locationP625Coordinates of the subject
Instance ofP31The class of which this subject is a particular example and member. For example, Anchor Brickworks is an instance of a brickworks
Located in the administrative territorial entityP131The item is located on the territory of the following administrative entity
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Figure 1

A Examples of data reuse. (A) J.S. created a Data Explore tab to give headline statistics on the memorials e.g., how many memorials are on Wikidata, how many women they commemorate, which memorial and subject has the most statements, and the average number of statements on the Wikidata items. (B) G.Y. mapped the brickworks onto contemporary maps from 1883–1903, highlighting the co-localisation of industrial sites with railway lines that were active at the time.

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Figure 2

Screenshots taken from the WikiShootMe web tool (A) focuses on St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, which contains several memorials to women. In the pop-up window is the memorial to Jenny Geddes (Q124387850). The coordinates are marked with a green circle, as a Wiki editor has uploaded a photo of the memorial to Wikimedia Commons. (B) focuses on Larbert Fire Clay Works (Wikidata item Q124514935) which was added to Wikidata because of this project. The coordinates are marked with a red circle, as the Wikidata item does not have an image (P18) statement associated with it.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.471 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 13, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 9, 2026
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Published on: Feb 25, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Jennifer Shaw, Grace Young, Mark Cranston, Sara Thomas, Kirsty S. Ross, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.