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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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Elementary my dear Jena
We’ve been thinking about Jena quite a bit lately with the move into Apache incubation. We can tell from all the emails we handle on Jena that it is used pretty heavily but we don’t always get to hear about where it is being used. Which made it fun to discover recently that IBM Watson,…
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Semtech 2010
Looking forward to attending and speaking at Semtech 2010 next week. Will be talking on the linked data API work we did for accessing data.gov.uk data and how that fits in with the larger opportunities for information intermediaries. Hoping to catch up lots of old and new contacts, ping me if you’d like to meet…
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Semantic Data Exchange
Semantic Data Exchange (SDX) was an investigation project looking at the role of information intermediaries for government linked data. This was a project funded by TSB (Technology Strategy Board). The work on SDX led to, supported and eventually exploited the Linked Data API we jointly developed with Jeni Tennison and Leigh Dodds. We gave a…
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Epimorphics designing ECO, a core domain ontology for Life Cycle Analysis
As the next step in developing the Earthster vision of creating a web of linked open sustainability data, Epimorphics is designing a core domain ontology for representing Life Cycle Analysis information about products. The Earthster Core Ontology (ECO) is a core domain ontology for life cycle analysis which is capable of representing models of product…
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Will linked data on data.gov.uk survive an election?
Last week I attended a cross-political party dinner given by the Technology Strategy Board(TSB) to promote their Digital Britain programme to policy-makers. There were about 20 of us there – mostly politicians, a number of people from the TSB and a few people from industry. Epimorphics is currently working on two TSB (part-)funded feasibility studies…
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Why Epimorphics?
First and foremost it’s a nice name. And no-one’s used it before. But it does have some significance. Our goal in building linked data solutions is to provide complete solutions to particular problems by bringing together data from multiple sources – and our name tries to capture this goal. Combining data from multiple sources involves…
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Epimorphics launched
On November 9th we launched Epimorphics limited, a new company providing consultancy, software tools and services for the web of data.
