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.

Reference interval service

When publishing statistics it is important to be able to reference the interval of time to which a particular statistic applies. This is important for individual entries in a statistical data set as well as for any metadata description that bounds the temporal scope of a dataset. In order to align statistical information that relates…
Linked-data UI’s: a response to David Karger

I wasn’t at this year’s ESWC conference, so I missed David Karger‘s keynote talk on A semantic web for end users. I’m sure it was a great talk, and I hope there will be a video version on the ESWC web site someday soon. Reading the tweet stream, one of the issues that David was…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Guide to the Payments Ontology

Background There is ongoing work within both local and central government on publication of data on payments to suppliers. Initially such data is generally being published as raw spreadsheets but there is a desire to move towards publication using open web standards that facilitate combination and comparison of data. Such linked data approaches can offer…
An organization ontology : Final steps

The next steps in developing our ontology involve one more set of changes (linking to OPMV) and, most importantly, publishing the ontology somewhere. These aren’t the “final” steps as far as the ontology is concerned, it will need to evolve as people gain experiences applying it and give feedback on design and naming issues. However,…
An organization ontology: Second draft

This is the fourth in our series of postings on the design of an organization ontology. The focus this time is on revising the ontology in the light of feedback and reflection. Review Reviewing the results of our draft with respect to the various design guides then we notice that we have failed to follow…