Edubase

As part of its move towards opening up its data, the UK Government has taken a lead on publishing information in structured, linked form on the web.

School image of a pupil with teacher

In the spirit of experimenting in the open it has been releasing preliminary data sets to interested developers. [News item]

As part of this work, members of the Epimorphics team, in their previous tenure at HP Laboratories, were pleased to help with an experimental conversion of the Edubase UK Schools database to RDF format for release to the developer community. See the blog for more details on how we went about that and the status of the work.