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Crafting Clear and Discoverable Data Descriptions

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December 7, 2023

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Alex Coley

In today’s data-driven landscape, the integration of data fuels unprecedented value. Organisations strive to optimise their data assets, emphasising the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR). These principles are a priority for the UK’s Geospatial Commission, ONS and the wider government via the Data Maturity Assessment framework. They’re also important to collaborations like…
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Introducing the Agora Catalog

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December 1, 2022

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Tom Guilbert

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…
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DataConnect 21: discussing data catalogues

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September 21, 2021

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Alex Coley

You don’t have to read much about data strategy and metadata management before you encounter the data catalogue (or catalog, if you prefer!). And they do sound compelling: one place where your analysts, data scientists, developers and policy-makers can go to find and share your organisation’s data.
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