http://www.pezholio.co.uk/2011/01/a-beginners-guide-to-sparqli…A great introduction to the world of linked data, RDF, triple-stores and SPARQL, with plenty of examples of how to construct a SPARQL query for local government spend data. Looking f…
http://parlvid.mysociety.org:81/os/This is the mySociety cache of OS OpenData, released 1st April 2010, and other related similarly-licensed data, as allowed under the licences.See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/a4dp via Amplify.com
Chris Taggart (member of the Local Public Data Panel) identifies the first of what is likely to be a growing number of enterprising organisations that will spring up as ‘the saviours’ to local councils struggling to come to terms with the need to …
Statement from Sir Time Berners Lee and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt would indicate that the cuts do not affect the Make Public Data Public initiative, and that the momentum for release of non-personal linked data via data.gov.uk portal will increase. So,…
Americans are turning in large numbers to government websites to access information and services. Fully 82% of internet users (representing 61% of all American adults) looked for information or completed a transaction on a government website in th…
On 23 December 2009, the Government published a consultation paper on policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey. The purpose of this consultation was to seek views about how to best implement proposals made by the Prime Minist…
