Epimorphics

Epimorphics

Projects

Our work is varied and covers a range of sectors including the tech arena and service based projects. We help organisations connect data, making more effective use of your information through open, standards-based linked data tools and techniques.

Find out more about some of our projects with the Food Standards Agency and various environmental agencies, as well as with The National Archive, Local Government and the Cabinet Office.

Case Studies

Linked data is a powerful approach to sharing and integrating information across the web. We have an experienced team of experts in linked data systems, and a worldwide client base across a range of market sectors.

Bathing Waters
Registry Core
Food Alerts Editor

Projects

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    Our API Libraries

    Client

    SAPI-NT is the next generation of our Streaming API library, for creating APIs over RDF data. This includes a flexible Kotlin library and starter application for providing flexible REST APIs over published Linked Data. It allows data to be accessed in JSON and CSV, as well as linked-data formats, making it easy for non-linked-data experts to work with the published data.

     
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    Agora Measurement Store

    Client

    The Agora Measurement Store is a flexible, highly scalable, cost-effective solution for management of both data and metadata. It combines the best of both worlds.

     
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    Agora Catalog

    Client

    Agora Catalog is a simple to use data catalog that helps people find, understand and access your data. It allows your teams to catalog the datasets and services they create and manage. It provides ways to join datasets together, to share them, and to create communities around data.

     
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    Building Bilingual Water Quality Data Applications

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    Natural Resources Wales like many public sector organisations in Wales has the additional requirement of providing services bilingually. Often this is not delivered when applications are built directly on data or is achieved through separate stacks. We developed the Bathing Water Quality Data service so that, from the bottom up, it supports multi-lingual applications. Our approach was to use the flexibility of our API to create a system capable of handling as many languages as required

     
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    CBD products on the market

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    Certain food and feed products, called regulated products, require authorisation before they can be sold in Great Britain. One type of regulated products are novel foods – that is foods that don’t have a ‘history of consumption’. Cannabidiol (CBD) food products are a type of novel food. CBD food products are on the market and going through the authorisations process. FSA wanted to be able to provide business, other food and animal feed industry users and the public with a searchable list tool to explore some details about CBD products that are going through the authorisation process. We designed, built and run the service as a data services delivery partner to the Food Standards Agency.

     
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    Food Alerts Wrapper

    Client

    This is a Python wrapper for the FSA Food Alerts API. This project was undertaken as part of one of our intern projects in 2020, and created with the aim of making interactions with the API much simpler so developers can focus on processing and analysing the data it provides.

     
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    Regulated Products Register

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    Certain food and feed products, called regulated products, require authorisation before they can be sold in the UK. For most regulated product types, once products or processes are authorised, they are listed in relevant legislation, which also sets out how they can be used. The register service provides a searchable tool for business and other food industry users to explore some detail about the authorisations. We designed, built and run the service as a data services delivery partner to the Food Standards Agency.

     
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    Hydrology Data Explorer

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    This application provides access to Environment Agency open hydrology data, including river flows, river levels, rainfall, groundwater levels and water quality readings for stations throughout England. We designed, built and run the service for the Environment Agency.

     
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    Sensor data & metadata standards review

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    We provided consultancy expertise for the “Environmental sensor network data and metadata review and development” project, this report helps inform the way that UKCEH will take forward its plans around modelling, managing and describing its sensor data. The report contains a review of a number of technical specifications originating with the ISO, OGC and W3C standards bodies in the field of earth observations and sensor networks, with the aim of developing a data model appropriate for UKCEH sensor data.

     
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    Our GCloud Offering Reference

    Client

    As an approved G-Cloud12 and DOS4 supplier on the digital market place we are a trusted supplier in the data sector, supporting our UK Public Sector partners in solving data challenges and supporting data driven outcomes.

     
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    Patents Linked Open Data

    Client

    The European Patent Office Linked Open European Patent Data Service publishes information about European patent applications using a technique known as Linked Data. This service supports a powerful web interface that can be used by developers to query patent data and retrieve it in a format of their choice. As well as information about patents, this system contains a Linked Data representation of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) scheme. Working in partnership with service providers we helped to undertake data modelling, design and develop the service.

     
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    INSPIRE in RDF Project Deliverables

    Client

    We provided consultancy and expertise as input to the Are3na project activity to “Documentation and development of a methodology for INSPIRE in RDF”. INSPIRE was focusing on addressing the interoperability of geospatial data sets and services through the creation of data models and geospatial encodings mechanisms for the exchange of data. We helped produced a number of reports as formal techical input into the Are3na project.

     
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    MyRivers Android App

    Client

    As one of our student projects and later intern projects – The MyRivers app demonstrated how mobile device users can browse some of the Environment Agency open river data we helped to publish, and explores how investigators in the field can directly access water-quality data using their phone’s location services.

     
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    EA Bathing Water Tableau Demo

    Client

    This project was developed as a demonstrater exploring APIs using Tableau – it used Tableau Public as simple way to create publicly accessible interactive visualisations using the Bathing Water open data sets that were accessible via an open linked data API.

     
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    On-line training material

    Client

    We have worked with many organizations (large and small, including public, private and voluntary) helping to build capabilities in different aspects of linked data, and equip decision makers with the knowledge and skills that they need to plan and design linked data solutions.

     
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    UK Government Reference Data and Linked Data Project

    Client

    See more at: https://data.gov.uk

     
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    EA Data Visualisation Demonstrator

    Client

    We designed, built and ran the flood monitoring API initially for the Environment Agency, The service allowed access to open data for rainfall, river and tide levels. Data was available from thousands of stations across the UK for the last month. This visualisation was built to demonstrate the open data available online to give an idea of its capabilities.

     
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    Our Code repositories on GitHub

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    Epimorphics are at the forefront of developing standards, tools and applications for the future of data on the web. We believe strongly in the use of open standards and open source. Where possible, we release software that we have developed.

     
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    Data Cube ontology (W3C)

    Client

    We provided consultancy and expertise in the development of ontologies for representing data cubes (statistics, measurements, expenditures) and for representing organisations, that can then be built into international standards.

     
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    ORG ontology (W3C)

    Client

    We provided consultancy and expertise in the development of an ontology to enable publication of information on organisations and organisational structures including governmental organisations. It is intended to provide a generic, reusable core ontology that can be extended or specialised for use in particular situations.

     
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    Registry Core

    Client

    The Linked Data Registry is an open source implementation of the Linked Data Registry specification – that we we helped to develop as a contribution to the UK Government Linked Data Working Group (UKGovLD). This Registry core repository is the primary base for UKGovLD registry implementations and is maintained active codebase for the registry, used buy ourselves and a number of other organisations

     
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    URI Patterns for Location

    Client

    We provided consultancy and expertise in the development of updated guidance to government and wider public sector in the use and design of URI sets that provide an opportunity to share common meaning and common identifiers to join-up data from many sources. This guidance focused on the special case of location data based URIs and formed contributions to the UK Government Linked Data Working Group.

     
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    URI Patterns Core

    Client

    We provided consultancy and expertise in the development of updated guidance to government and wider public sector in the use and design of URI sets that provide an opportunity to share common meaning and common identifiers to join-up data from many sources. This guidance focused on the core URI guidance and formed contributions to the UK Government Linked Data Working Group.

     
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    Reference Interval Server – code

    Client

    We provided consultancy and development expertise for creation of a service to provide for dereferencing time-based URIs.

     
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    Sport Ontology

    Client

    We worked with the BBC to enhance the coverage of major sporting events by introducing linked data. They have gone on to publish the structure that was developed, and use the ontology across the BBC to enhance the experience for website users.

     
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    Company registrations

    Client

    We worked with Companies House to model data, design and build a linked data service implimentation of the company registration data

     
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    Price Paid data and API

    Client

    The UK HPI aggregates Price Paid Data (PPD) to provide a transparent and unbiased view of the housing market. It is hugely influential. HM Treasury, the Bank of England, and a raft of other Government departments, rely on the data for policy decisions. This service presents unrestricted data in an easy-to-comprehend way. We worked with HMLR to design, build and run this service.

     
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    Standard Report Builder

    Client

    HM Land Registry publishes open data on prices paid for properties sold in England and Wales. For customers who want aggregated price data for statistical analysis, this standard reports application allows anyone to configure a report for various geographical areas in England and Wales. We worked with HMLR to design, build and run this service.

     
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    UK House Price Index

    Client

    Epimorphics supported Land Registry in building capability and supporting the publication of the UK House Price Index as open linked data. The Land Registry records the sale of residential and commercial properties and this data is made available to support many types of users including the public, companies and institutions. We worked with HMLR to design, build and run this service.

     
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    Land Registry Open Data

    Client

    HM Land Registry publishes several public datasets on GOV.UK as part of their commitment to the Government’s priorities of economic growth and data transparency. We worked with HMLR to design, build and run this service.

     
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    Bathing Waters API

    Client

    The Natural Resources Wales Bathing Water Quality Data service was developed with the specific needs of Wales and dual language capabilities built in. The NRW service and the data API all are able to respond to language requests supporting both NRW’s and other Wales user needs. We worked with NRW to design, build and run this service.

     
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    Bathing Waters

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    Natural Resource Wales (NRW) and the Environment Agency (EA) have a key roles ensure that bathing waters have good water quality in Wales and England respectively. Bathing Waters are designated beaches (or inland swimming spots) assessed by the EA and NRW in line with the relevant legislation and regulations. Water samples are taken at designated points weekly, during the bathing water season. In order to make the results of the Bathing Water Quality sampling available to the many individuals and organisations who make use of it, starting in 2010, we worked with EA and later NRW to design and build these services. We currently also run the service for NRW.

     
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    Catchment Data API

    Client

    We worked with the Environment Agency to initially design the underlying data model for this service that has evolved over a number of years

     
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    UK Tide Gauges

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build a service that published data from the UK National Tide Gauge Network, owned and operated by the Environment Agency, on behalf of the UK Coastal Flood Forecasting service. It recorded tidal elevations at 44 locations around the UK coast.

     
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    Rainfall Data

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build a service that published data from 1000 real time rain gauges which are connected by telemetry. Browse data from the network of tipping-gauge rainfall sensors, available as open linked-data via the Rainfall API.

     
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    Public Registers

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build a service that published data that supported the initial publication of the Environment Agency public registers of information.

     
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    Historic Water Quality (WIMS) archive

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build a service that published data from the Environment Agency’s National Water Quality Data Archive (WIMS)

     
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    Flood Widget

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build a service that helped users access flood warning data via a simple configurable widget. This increased the reach of the data for the Environment Agency and supported greater investment into similar services.

     
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    Flood Monitoring (Warnings, Alerts & River Levels)

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build a service that provided a range of live information related to flooding including alerts and warnings of current or impending floods, together with real time measurements of river levels and flows.

     
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    Bathing Water API Document

    Client

    This document details a web API for access to the live publication of Bathing Water information published by the Environment Agency for bathing waters in England that are monitored in order to meet UK reporting obligations under the EU Bathing Water Directive.

     
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    Bathing Water Widgets

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    We previously worked with the Environment Agency (EA) and subsequently National Resources Wales (NRW) to design and build services that help Local Authorities and other users add the bathing water data quickly to their websites and beach pubic display screens using a configurable widget. We also currently run the NRW bathing water data service.

     
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    Bathing Water Explorer and Profiles

    Client

    We previously worked with the Environment Agency to design and build an award winning service – the Bathing Water Data Explorer – an application designed to enable people to explore information about English and Welsh designated bathing waters that has been produced by the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales.

     
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    Data Catalog Editor

    Client

    We worked with the FSA to design, build and run a service to supports the Government’s drive for transparency and the Agency’s own core value of openness and transparency with a open data catalog and internal management tool.

     
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    Unified View Data Hub

    Client

    We worked with the FSA to design, build and run a service that focuses on integrating and improving internal data from multiple sources about food businesses and establishments. The Unified View service is the set of services bringing the data back from local authorities to the Food Standards Agency. It provides a platform to integrate other datasets and to give a much more complete picture of the industry. This service is built with multiple access needs, data streams, a common data model and data reconciliation.

     
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    Food Alerts Editor

    Client

    One of the FSA’s key roles is responding to concerns about food safety. As part of the digital transformation program, one of the biggest projects was to streamline the food and allergy alerts (product recalls) that both manufacturers and consumers rely on. We worked with the FSA to design, build and run a service that supports the publication process (reducing publication time) and providing quality structured data via ain API that is used by the FSA and food industry.

     
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    Reference Number Generator

    Client

    We worked with the FSA to design a specification and implementation to provide a standard method for generating reference numbers for a number of special cases within the FSA.

     
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    Food Types

    Client

    We worked with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to design and build a demonstration implementation of an open linked data version of the FoodEx2 standard. The Food Types registers provide a web-accessible copy of the FoodEx2 standardised food classification and description system from the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA). Helping the FSA to code the data in their reporting data in a linked and reusable form.

     
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    Safety Alerts

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    Food Standards Agency (FSA) Food Alerts are the primary mechanism by which the public are alerted that food products are recalled because of allergen related or other issues. We worked with the FSA to develop programatic access via an API (Application Programming Interface) to the alerts data so that it can easily be reused by other organisations and application developers. This was part of a larger piece of work including the development of the Food Alerts Editor.

     
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    FSA Codes

    Client

    Like many organisations, and especially public bodies, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) manages and maintains a growing set of codelists, controlled vocabularies and other data standards in support of its own activities. This reference data is also used to support a broader ecosystem of Local Authorities and other actors that provide and exchange data related to food and feed safety. We worked with the FSA to design, build and run a linked data registry service that supports the FSA in managing their codelists and other critical reference data.

     
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    data.food.gov.uk

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    We worked with FSA to design and build the data.food.gov.uk data catalogue platform. The platform enables FSA to collate, manage and provide access to their open data, both via a user interface and programatically via an API

     
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    French Geoscience Data Registry

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    We have provided consultancy, expertise and development support to BRGM (the French Geological Survey) in their implementation of the Reference Data Management Platform. In addition we worked with BRGM to make enhancements to the Registry Core to help meet their needs more effectively. These enhancements were then rolled into the Registry Core itself.