Balloon race disasters are no laughing matter! 😉 asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/276...
Competing in 12th Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett. Hit by lightning while airborne, like two other balloons, and crashed. First Lieutenants Robert S Olmsted and John W Shoptaw both kill...
The decision to use Wikibase was guided by the fact it is community-owned and open. It is easy to use, with no need for local procedures for updating and maintenance. Entities can be easily downloaded from Wikibase in JSON ttl or RDF - & there's an active community offering support #eubfws2024
SHARE Catalogue initiative recently launched the UNIMARC-BIBFRAME 2.0 mapping and its transposition into a dedicated Wikibase instance so that Wikidata can provide context to library metadata #eubfws2024
Within the last few months alone doing stuff with dates has involved: Excel (do as Will says here) TEI XML tei-c.org/release/doc/...www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Da...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601www.loc.gov/standards/da...lubridate.tidyverse.org 😂
I wrote up something about the workflow I've been using for @beyondnotables.bsky.socialbeyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Pagebeyond-notability.github.io/bn_notes/not... Very niche. 🤓
this somewhat dramatic shot was captured after a Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Mi-26T, carrying munitions, crashed in Dagestan on 25/9/1999 (no casualties) asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/80425
This was a Lancair Super ES that had departed from Hartford Municipal Airport asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/403...
N94AD, Petrowest / S. Dantata. Apparently, this SF50 suffered a collapsed nose gear during an aborted take off in Algeria in February of this year. Source: asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/352....
Research on the first one (looked up Reg No), a Dart Pup that met an untimely end. asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/205...
