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CONFERENCE: TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
At the end of the month in the heart of Westminster, is the annual Government ICT 2.0 conference. This year we are attending and supporting the conference’s data stream. If you want to chat about our work or interesting challenges and opportunities some of the team will be there through the day. See you on…
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UK HOUSE PRICE INDEX (UKHPI)
The UK House Price Index (UKHPI) data service that we’ve built for the Land Registry has gone live today (14th June 2016). The UK House Price Index (HPI) uses house sales data from Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland and is calculated by the Office of National Statistics. The…
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Updated BATHING WATER SERVICE
The Environment Agency’s updated Bathing Water Quality service with data explorer, widgets and linked data service has gone live today (9th May 2016), ready for the 2016 bathing water season. Client: ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Case Study: www.epimorphics.com/casestudy/bathing-water/ Service: https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/
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FLOOD WIDGET
The Environment Agency’s new flood warning widget has gone live today (8th April 2016). The flood warning widget allows you to embed the Environment Agency’s live Flood Warnings onto a page on your website. The widget shows the latest summary of flood alerts and warnings. Read more on this project: www.epimorphics.com/casestudy/river-level-and-flood-monitoring/
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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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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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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…