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Industry news and comment, from practical tips for publishing open data to inspiring accounts of how open data has changed businesses.
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Introducing our Consultancy Services
We offer a number of consultancy based services that bring our expertise and experience to helping organisations make the best of their data. For example we support the UK public sector including via GCloud13. This post highlights our team of experts, our cloud support services and other consultancy offerings. Our recent posts have highlighted a…
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Introducing our Data Integration and Publishing Platform service
We offer a number of services to support the UK public sector through GCloud13. This post highlights our cloud software Data Integration & Publishing Platform and associated Data Integration & Publishing support service. Our data integration and publishing platform enables organisations to transform and integrate data from a wide variety of systems and then make…
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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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We’re hiring for interns!
It’s that time of year again! Epimorphics are looking for two or three software development interns with enthusiasm for emerging technologies to come and work with us.
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What has linked-data ever done for us?
In one of the more memorable scenes of The Life of Brian, John Cleese’s character Reg asks his assembled group "What have the Romans ever done for us?" Followed, as most people know, by a long litany of everything the Romans had indeed done for them.
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What is linked data?
Linked data is an approach to publishing and sharing data on the web.
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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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Linked Open Data Business Models
Jeni Tennison has blogged about Open Data Business Models (https://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/172). Like all Jeni’s writings it’s useful and insightful. But I resonated particularly strongly with one comment in her blog: “I don’t think anyone is likely to publish open data well if they don’t have some motivation that is a lot nearer to home than ‘helping grow…
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Bathing Water Quality as Linked Data
Is is safe to go back in the water? In the movie Jaws 2 the risk to avoid was a giant shark, but fortunately this is not a threat we have to worry about in the UK. There are, however, other reasons to be careful. One of these is water quality: we would prefer to…
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Epimorphics helps Environment Agency publish 2012 bathing water linked-data
Epimorphics has just completed a project with the Environment Agency to publish the seasonal bathing water quality data as linked data. This linked data can be explored and re-used by members of the public, software developers and data scientists alike. How clean are bathing waters, coastal and inland, that we like to swim in during…