Epimorphics

Epimorphics

Our Market Sectors

We have experience in implementing innovative linked data systems for numerous clients across a range of market sectors, including finance, media and IT solutions, using our expertise to help businesses organise, publish and exploit linked data.

  • The problem of state, running linked data services in Kubernetes

    An important part of our work involves running and managing services for our clients. Whether public facing data services such as the Environment Agency Hydrology service or Food Standards Agency listings of regulated products, or private data services used for data integration and access within a client’s business. Running so many managed services efficiently means…

  • Regression testing and data checking using SPARQL

    Regression testing and data checking using SPARQL

    Many of our projects involve the transformation of source data from a tabular format into RDF that has been aligned with classes and properties drawn from RDF vocabularies. Over time the source data, target vocabularies and the transforms themselves can be subject to change. We have a growing number of relatively generic regression checks that…

  • Securing Infrastructure Monitoring using OAuth2

    Securing Infrastructure Monitoring using OAuth2

    Andrew, our DevOps engineering lead, talks about his experiences securing infrastructure monitoring with OAuth2, when working on our infrastructure development. This post is one of our #TechTalk posts, that will focus on different areas of our work in the coming months. Part One: the problem The DevOps world has a mature eco-system of Third-Party applications…

  • Ansible and using a Bastion server to AWS EC2 instances

    Ansible and using a Bastion server to AWS EC2 instances

    Andrew, our DevOps engineering lead, talks about his experiences with Ansible and using a Bastion server to AWS EC2 instances, when working on our infrastructure development.  This post is one of our #TechTalk focused posts, that we’ll be focusing on different areas of our work in the coming months. Part One: introduction As I’ve often…

  • Introducing our reference data management platform service

    Introducing our reference data management platform service

    We offer a number of services to support the UK public sector through GCloud13.  This post highlights our cloud software Reference Data Management (Registry) Platform and associated Reference Data Publishing support service. Our Reference data management platform service enables organisations to manage a version controlled hierarchy of reference terms, delegating authority to different groups in…

  • Introducing the Agora Catalog

    Introducing the Agora Catalog

    I’m really excited to be writing this blog post to introduce our up and coming Agora Catalog. At Epimorphics we have years of experience working with clients and their data. I joined the company earlier in the year after nearly 20 years in the public sector wrangling data, so I personally understand the pressures that…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…