Investigating VoID and CKAN
For some experiments we're doing at the moment, I need some datasets from CKAN that also include VoID markup. Fortunately, the metadata from CKAN has been translated to RDF: there's no official...
View ArticleOWL 2 for RDF Vocabularies
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View ArticleRDF Result sets
[This entry is a cross-post of an earlier personal blog post.]In some recent semantic web applications, where we’ve been creating user interfaces over REST style interfaces over RDF data sets, we found...
View ArticleGenerating RDF from CSV - example using xlwrap
Although there is a dump of the RDF data from CKAN available on-line, it's the full CKAN dataset and not the UK Government-specific set. For some ongoing experiments, I want some CKAN data in RDF for...
View ArticleAn RDF to JSON converter on Google App Engine
As part of our work on the SDX project we felt one requirement was to enable typical web developers to exploit the RDF linked data in a simpler, more developer friendly form. In particular it would be...
View ArticleUsing Interval Set URIs in Statistical Data
Statistical publications generally include at least one dimension comprised of the time intervals over which data has been aggregated. Linked data vocabularies for representing statistical information,...
View ArticleLinked data API slide set
I recently gave a lightning talk on the Linked Data API at the Open Government Data Camp.It was a very high level summary (only had 10 mins in total) but a couple of people asked for a pointer to the...
View ArticleSimple Security for Fuseki
This entry describes an interim solution for providing a minimal level of access control to a Fuseki server.Fuseki, a part of the Jena family of linked data tools, is an Open Source SPARQL server. It...
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How Clean is the Water?
Publishing regulatory compliance data as open linked data improved engagement while reducing costs In 1957, six year old Caroline Wakefield died of polio contracted from raw sewage discharged into the...
View ArticleRIVER LEVEL AND FLOOD MONITORING beta release
The Environment Agency’s new River Level and Flood Monitoring data API has gone live today as a beta service (23rd March 2016). This includes live information related to flooding including alerts and...
View ArticlePUBLIC REGISTERS
The Environment Agency’s electronic Public Registers (ePR) data service has gone live today (4th April 2016). This includes information on registrations and permits for activities that have the...
View ArticleFLOOD WIDGET
The Environment Agency’s new flood warning widget has gone live today (8th April 2016). The flood warning widget allows you to embed the Environment Agency’s live Flood Warnings onto a page on your...
View ArticleUpdated BATHING WATER SERVICE
The Environment Agency’s updated Bathing Water Quality service with data explorer, widgets and linked data service has gone live today (9th May 2016), ready for the 2016 bathing water season. Client:...
View ArticleUK HOUSE PRICE INDEX (UKHPI)
The UK House Price Index (UKHPI) data service that we’ve built for the Land Registry has gone live today (14th June 2016). The UK House Price Index (HPI) uses house sales data from Land Registry,...
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What is linked data?
Linked data is an approach to publishing and sharing data on the web. What does that mean? Surely if I just put an Excel or PDF file on a web site then I’m publishing data? What makes linked data...
View ArticleGCloud 8 Digital Marketplace
https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/search?q=epimorphics Specific Services: Linked Data Modelling & Consultancy Linked Data Application Development Core Reference Data...
View ArticleReference interval service
When publishing statistics it is important to be able to reference the interval of time to which a particular statistic applies. This is important for individual entries in a statistical data set as...
View ArticleCONFERENCE: TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
At the end of the month in the heart of Westminster, is the annual Government ICT 2.0 conference. This year we are attending and supporting the conference’s data stream. If you want to chat about our...
View ArticleSummer Internship experiences
The University of Bristol is one of the top Computer Science universities in the UK, they have a curriculum that is heavy based on practical work and group projects. For example, in my third year I...
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