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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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PUBLIC 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 potential to pollute the environment. This is available via searchable web forms and APIs
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RIVER 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 warnings of current or impending floods, together with real time measurements of river levels and flows. Read more on this project: www.epimorphics.com/casestudy/river-level-and-flood-monitoring/
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How Clean is the Water?
Publishing regulatory compliance data as open linked data improved engagement while reducing costs.
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NATURAL RESOURCES WALES BATHING WATER SERVICE
The Natural Resources Wales Bathing Water Quality service with data explorer, widgets and linked data service has gone live today (1st May 2015), providing bilingual linked data and information for those visiting bathing waters in Wales. Read more on this project; www.epimorphics.com/casestudy/natural-resources-wales/
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Epimorphics and G-Cloud
Epimorphics now have three services available for procurement via G-Cloud. G-Cloud (digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud) is a UK Government system to enable the public sector to procure cloud services simply. Since G-Cloud suppliers have already entered into a framework agreement with the UK Government procurement of these services by the UK public sector is very straightforward.The services we…
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Epimorphics provides linked data publishing service for the Land Registry
The Land Registry is now publishing its data on prices paid for houses sold in England and Wales as Linked Data (www.landregistry.gov.uk/announcements/2013/land-registry-provides-linked-data). The Land Registry chose Epimorphics’ Linked Data Publishing Platform as the means of making this data available.
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Linked Open Data Business Models
Jeni Tennison has blogged about Open Data Business Models (https://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/172). Like all Jeni’s writings it’s useful and insightful. But I resonated particularly strongly with one comment in her blog: “I don’t think anyone is likely to publish open data well if they don’t have some motivation that is a lot nearer to home than ‘helping grow…
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Using Interval URIs in Statistical Data
Statistical publications generally include at least one dimension comprised of the time intervals over which data has been aggregated.
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Bathing Water Quality as Linked Data
Is is safe to go back in the water? In the movie Jaws 2 the risk to avoid was a giant shark, but fortunately this is not a threat we have to worry about in the UK. There are, however, other reasons to be careful. One of these is water quality: we would prefer to…
