Blog
Industry news and comment, from practical tips for publishing open data to inspiring accounts of how open data has changed businesses.
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Introducing the Agora Measurement Store
It can be a challenge to manage very high volumes of data from environmental, or other, sensor networks. Especially to do so while providing the high quality metadata needed to make the data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable).
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Epimorphics Ltd – Approved GCloud 13 CCS Supplier
Epimorphics are proud to continue our cloud-based computing service offerings through the GCloud 13 digital marketplace. Our services have again been accepted onto the Government’s Crown Commercial Service – G-Cloud 13 framework. From 9th November 2022, our services will be available on the digital marketplace for a quick and easy route to market.
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Epimorphics at thirteen
When the eight co-founders launched Epimorphics in November 2009 they had no idea what they were letting themselves in for. All of the team had spent most of the 10 previous years nurturing the nascent Semantic Web technology and thought it was very important to develop, but we didn’t know much about business.
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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 […]
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DataConnect 21: discussing data catalogues
You don’t have to read much about data strategy and metadata management before you encounter the data catalogue (or catalog, if you prefer!). And they do sound compelling: one place where your analysts, data scientists, developers and policy-makers can go to find and share your organisation’s data.
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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 Javascript site.
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Epimorphics on UK Public Sector GCloud12 Digital Marketplace
We are delighted to announce our re- award on the UK Governments latest G-Cloud framework, G-Cloud 12.
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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.
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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 her second year.
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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 was to move Qonsole away from JQuery, what it was originally written in and which a lot of JS applications have moved away from, to a Vue JS component that can be imported by simply referencing in package.json and added directly into the code.
