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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…
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Driving the bathing water quality API from JavaScript
We’ve just completed a project helping the Environment Agency of England & Wales publish their bathing water quality data and bathing water profiles as linked data. The data is available for re-use by developers through an instance of the linked data API, which is intended to make linked data more accessible to web developers. Less…
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Epimorphics builds a data publish platform for the Environment Agency
Epimorphics has developed a linked data publishing system for the UK Environment Agency in support of their Bathing Water data. Ian has described the application; this blog entry describes the data publishing platform. The publishing system consists of the Bathing Water Data Explorer and a fault-tolerant, scalable data platform. We’d previously built a prototype system…
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Epimorphics helps Environment Agency publish 2012 bathing water linked-data
Epimorphics has just completed a project with the Environment Agency to publish the seasonal bathing water quality data as linked data. This linked data can be explored and re-used by members of the public, software developers and data scientists alike. How clean are bathing waters, coastal and inland, that we like to swim in during…
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Linked data API slide set
I recently gave a lightning talk on the Linked Data API at the Open Government Data Camp. It was a very high level summary (only had 10 mins in total) but a couple of people asked for a pointer to the slides so they are: here. Thanks to Jeni Tennison for her great work on…
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Semtech exhibition
We had a great time at the Semantic Technologies Business Conference in London last week. Many good conversations with people throughout the two days, and lots to follow up on. It was very rewarding to see how some of the things we’ve been involved in have been taken up and used. The Data Cube came…
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Introductory talk at BCS meeting
I gave an invited seminar on linked data to the BCS Data Management Specialist Group yesterday. Mostly introductory level but, given the possible audience, went into a more of the details on the information modelling aspects than I would normally do in an introductory talk. It seemed to go down well. Lots of questions and…
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Simple Security for Fuseki
This entry describes an interim solution for providing a minimal level of access control to a Fuseki server. Fuseki, a part of the Jena family of linked data tools, is an Open Source SPARQL server. It provides the REST-style SPARQL HTTP Update, and SPARQL Query and SPARQL Update using the SPARQL protocol over HTTP. Though…
