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Category Archives: linked data

See UK Released

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

See UK (http://apps.seme4.com/see-uk) is a simple visualisation of data that has geographic aspects and has been published as machine-interpretable Linked Data. This site uses data that has been sourced from data.gov.uk and processed into Linked Data where necessary, but is also designed to be able to use other sources where available. All the datasets are then enriched, by calculating area totals [...]

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Data Journalism and its role for open government data

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Simon Rogers, editor of The Guardian‘s Datablog, last week posted a top 10 list data.gov.uk datasets by how they could be relevant to people, highlighting a number of very interesting data sets.  He featured national transport statistics, a massive data set cataloging not only every bus, rail, coach stop or pier in the UK but [...]

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A linked data web of a million easy pieces

Monday, August 23, 2010

(The following article is an op-ed piece and does not reflect the views of EnAKTing as a whole.) The community of developers and researchers working on the Web of Linked Data are an extraordinary group of talented hackers.  But anybody who is a member of the community quickly runs into the same problems: the number [...]

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