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From Websites to Wikidata: Digitising Scotland’s Stories

Open Access
|Feb 2026

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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.