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UK Government Data Maturity Assessment Framework
We’ve been looking at the UK Government’s Data Maturity Assessment for Government Framework published in March this year. We see it as an important framework, in that it will inform central governmental (and possibly other) organisational data strategies in the coming years, especially in the context of the National Data Strategy, so have taken a…
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Regression testing and data checking using SPARQL
Many of our projects involve the transformation of source data from a tabular format into RDF that has been aligned with classes and properties drawn from RDF vocabularies. Over time the source data, target vocabularies and the transforms themselves can be subject to change. We have a growing number of relatively generic regression checks that…
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Epimorphics on UK Public Sector GCloud12 Digital Marketplace
We are delighted to announce our re- award on the UK Governments latest G-Cloud framework, G-Cloud 12.
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Data Autopsy by SPARQL – looking for things that don’t join up
As we take data from different sources data quality issues are something that we have to look out for. This post is about the generic SPARQL queries we use to track down ‘dangling references’ and to develop some insight into the systemic causes of the breakage… a “Data Autopsy by SPARQL”