Linked Data Training & Courses

Get your team rapidly up to speed with modelling, publishing and exploiting linked data and data standards to design, build and use complete linked data solutions.

Our training courses cover both the fundamental principles of linked data and the practical development and use of linked data and semantic technology solutions. Our courses have been developed based on our extensive experience helping organisations from the public, commercial and voluntary sector publish and work with open data. These courses are well-suited for organisations developing or enhancing their data strategies and needing to grow internal expertise. We’ve included these courses alongside our GCloud offer, if you are in the UK public sector, take a look at our GCloud offerings.

Bespoke Training and Mentoring

Epimorphics offers a range of training courses to support people wishing to design and publish their data on the web as linked data.

Our training courses include: Introductions to Linked Data, Querying Linked Data using SPARQL and Data modelling and development workshop. We also offer in-depth technical training courses tailored to support your needs.

We can adapt our core training offerings to meet your specific needs and put together courses on other topics. We also offer follow up support packages to help your staff apply what they have learned.

Training Modules

These courses are suitable for: data scientists, data engineers, data users, data modellers, data architects, data managers and others

Benefits of Linked Data

A management-level introduction to understanding the benefits of linked data. Covers motivations, principles, practices and technologies, and the key features of linked data solutions. This course will help organisations building data strategies and developing plans to integrate and share data.

Introduction to Linked Data

A practically oriented introduction to the concepts, standards, technologies and tools needed understand and implement linked data solutions. Understand key benefits of linked data, gain firsthand experience of exactly what it is and how it works, evaluate its relevance to your situation and get started with the technology. Can be taken as one or two days, the second day adds technical detail and provides more advanced practice.

SPARQL (Linked Data Query Language)

The one day version of this course introduces core elements of using SPARQL (Linked Data Query Language) to query linked data and can be flexibly extended to cover more advanced topics including named graphs, query federation and SPARQL Update.

Linked Data Modelling and Ontology Development

After a general introduction to the principles of linked data modelling, attendees are guided through the process of developing a model for a familiar domain. Using this example attendees learn how to apply common modelling patterns, ontology components and standard tools that they can reuse in their own work.

Bespoke Linked Data Training and Support

We can adapt our core training offerings to meet your specific needs and put together courses on other topics, for example ‘publishing statistical data as linked open data’, ‘The Linked Data API and Elda”. We also offer follow up support packages to help your staff apply what they have learned.

Registry Training

This course provides a review of the features and facilities provided by the Reference Data Manager, together with training on its operation. It explains how to load new items, how to update existing registers and code lists, and how to query and retrieve data form the platform. It also covers how to add new users to the system and manage administrative functions.