Our Market Sectors

We have experience in implementing innovative linked data systems for numerous clients across a range of market sectors, including finance, media and IT solutions, using our expertise to help businesses organise, publish and exploit linked data.

Exploring the use of Zapier and the FSA Food Alerts data

In this post, Paul explores the use of Zapier and similar services use of the FSA Food Alert API, as a way for pulling in data from the API as part of a workflow. We recently met with a food tech service provider and learnt that they use the Food Standard Agency (FSA) Food Alerts…
Our 2021/2022 Carbon Footprint

2021/22 is the second year we have formally estimated our carbon footprint working closely with carbon footprinting consultants Carbon Footprint Ltd to ensure that we are following standards and guidelines as closely as we can. Having done our footprint last year, it was easier and quicker pulling the information and data required together this year.…
A parting of ways

Thursday April 14th 2022 will be my last working day with Epimorphics. After a short break, I’ll be starting a new chapter, but after twelve years – and being here since the start – I wanted to look back and reflect a little. We started Epimorphics with some very deep expertise in linked-data and RDF…
Adding Welsh language support to UKHPI

The UK House Price Index is a complex data-visualisation web application that presents house price data across the UK, using Ruby on Rails and VueJS. We recently upgraded the site to be fully available in both Welsh and English languages. Here we look at some of the challenges involved in localising a mixed Rails and…
Automating data pattern recognition for increased efficiency

Redan joined the team this summer for a remote internship, to build tools that would enable us to crunch unstructured data a lot more efficiently.
Creating RDF Explorer

Another of this year’s interns joined us for a three months placement this summer, having completed a year of Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University. Louise was set to work on an internal project that demonstrates RDF through an application that we hope to embed in our website, before heading back after the summer for…
Building a SPARQL query editor in VueJS

This summer, for three months, I had the chance to work for Epimorphics as an Intern on an internal project to rewrite Qonsole in Vue JS. Qonsole is a project that my mentor, Ian, worked on seven years ago, as a simple console for running SPARQL queries on the web. The goal of this project…
Remote internships and developing a disabled parking application

We’ve been running our internship programme for the last 5 years at Epimorphics and we really value the interns’ input and fresh perspective to different projects.
Food Alerts API Python Wrapper

The FSA Food Alerts API provides data on alerts regarding food safety and hygiene, ranging from undeclared allergens to pathogen risks. The dataset the API provides has tremendous potential for data analysis which can provide interesting insights about the food market.
API Wrapper Generator

My first task as a software development intern at Epimorphics was to create a Python API wrapper for the FSA Food Alerts API (https://data.food.gov.uk/food-alerts/ui/reference). This wrapper makes consuming the API much easier and allows users to process and analyse the data the API provides without having to worry about the details around accessing the API.