The Witches project goal is to geographically locate the residence location of accused witches. The places that they live which they correctly identified is recorded on to the accused witches page found on the Wikidata page.
This allowed for these places to be used for the Wikidata service and downloaded in different ways to be visualized. This project is to locate and visualize the different locations recorded within the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database.
In 2017, Anne-Marie Scott, Deputy Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services at the University of Edinburgh looked for students interested in data science to work on the Witchcraft database .The bulk of this project is by Emma Carroll, a Physical Geography undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland started in June of 2019.
“The Data and Visualisation internship project at the University of Edinburgh had as its core aim to geographically locate and visualise the different locations recorded within the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database”
