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Tracking environmental data using the Hydrology service API
Our CTO Dave Reynolds explains how the new Hydrology API can be used efficiently to keep a local copy of some hydrology data up to date.
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Introducing Hydrology Service Version 3.1.0
Our Delivery Manager Tom Guilbert describes the up-and-coming improvements to the Hydrology Service we are working on for the Environment Agency. Introduction In previous blogs I’ve described the hugely expanded version of the Hydrology Service and its underpinning API that we built and run for the Environment Agency (EA). The service is built on our…
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Team introductions – Beth
Hello! My name is Beth, I am the Finance Administrator at Epimorphics and I joined the team in February 2022. I work part time as I have two young children at home as well as a dog and two cats, all of whom find plenty of ways to take up my time and who enjoy…
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Linked Data Government Community then and now (11 years since UKGovLD)
At the end of June it will be 11 years since the Government and Industry Linked Data Working Group was set up to support the adoption of connected data, web focused data standards and key reference data approaches that have been embedded across the UK Public sector. The group was a great collaborative team that…
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Implementing a GraphQL API for a Graph Database
Simon, one of our senior engineers talks about his experiences implementing a GraphQL API for a Graph Database.
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Accessing the Environment Agency’s continuous monitoring archive via API
Our delivery manager Tom Guilbert highlights the updated API that underpins the Environment Agency’s continuous monitoring archive that we designed, built and run. The API is a way to access the massive volume of data behind the Hydrology Data Explorer. Introduction This blog follows on from a previous post about a new and hugely expanded…
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UK Government Data Maturity Assessment Framework
We’ve been looking at the UK Government’s Data Maturity Assessment for Government Framework published in March this year. We see it as an important framework, in that it will inform central governmental (and possibly other) organisational data strategies in the coming years, especially in the context of the National Data Strategy, so have taken a…
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Publishing the Environment Agency’s Hydrology Archive for Everyone
Our Delivery Manager Tom Guilbert reflects on his first year with Epimorphics since leaving the Environment Agency, whilst announcing the launch of our major overhaul of the Environment Agency’s Hydrology Data Service.
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My First 6 Months as a Frontend Software Engineer at Epimorphics
Our new Frontend Software Engineer Daniel shares his experience of working at Epimorphics over the past 6 months. He talks about the challenges he faced, the skills he acquired, and the impact he has made. He also dives into the work culture at the company and the projects he worked on.
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Writing ontologies with ChatGPT
We’ve been watching the development of modern Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT with keen interest and some awe. Like much of the tech world we’ve been fascinated by ChatGPT and the mix of impressive results, some errors and some outright making (convincing) stuff up, that it delivers As others have noticed, ChatGPT has a…
