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Our 2023/24 Carbon Footprint
Fourth Verified Carbon Footprint Underlines Epimorphics’ Sustainability Focus Epimorphics has published its fourth verified annual carbon footprint report, covering the 2023/24 period. This latest assessment includes our GHG emissions across Scope 1, 2, and Scope 3 (core and supply chain). In parallel we have published our Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) following the Procurement Policy Note 06/21…
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Spring Boot Plugin Development
Simon, one of our senior engineers in this #TechTalk post explores the use cases and methodology for implementing, packaging and integrating Spring Boot applications which are extensible by external plugins. This post refers to application and library code written in Kotlin and managed by Maven, but should be applicable to any other equivalent Spring-compatible technologies.…
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Experimenting with AI for Data Analysis
When we last experimented with Large Language Models (LLMs), and their embodiment in agents like ChatGPT, we had mixed results. Applying ChatGPT-3, as it was then, to the problem of data modelling and ontology generation we found it impressive but ultimately the results were superficial and of limited use for practical modelling work in its…
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Updated Hydrology Service (Version 3.1.0)
Our Delivery Manager Tom Guilbert describes the improvements to the Hydrology Service we’ve released today 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 Agora Measurement…
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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…
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URIs for Linked Data
#TechTalk: URIs and URLs for linked data, is an old topic but one which keeps coming up in discussions so it seemed worth a refresher… Why URLs at all? Linked Data is all about helping people understand and combine data from different sources, or over time. For that to be possible we want to create…
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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…