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Picture courtesy of Policy Exchange I had an interesting morning yesterday at the launch of the Shakespeare Review, Stephan Shakespeare’s independent review of public sector information. There was an interesting panel session and discussion at the event and the twittersphere seems to have...

A short time ago we produced a Linked Data site for Hampshire County Council. We modelled their planned home building plans over the next six years as Linked Data and published it through PublishMyData. As an example of what could be done with this data via the APIs, and to help people explore...

As we’ve long been promising, we’ve started to release some open source code to help people publish and consume Linked Open Data. The first component that we’d like to talk about is Tripod. It’s an RDF and SPARQL ORM, designed for use in Ruby-on-Rails apps. What’s...

We are pleased to announce that we were recently awarded a contract to work on a production version of DCLG’s open data initiative, OpenDataCommunities. This exciting project was awarded through G-Cloud, and we are delighted that the department chose us to help them execute their vision...

For a recent project, we needed to the ability to allow users to embed portions of the site in their own websites and blogs by copy-pasting a little bit of code. This blog post explains how we arrived at a solution for this. Warning! This blog post gets pretty techy and is intended for other...

We recently worked with DCLG (Department for Communities and Local Govermnent) to produce an online dashboard that enables users to see how the department is performing against key indicators in priority areas: Impact Indicators: the performance or output of public services. Input Indicators: how...

A couple of weeks ago, we launched SmartJourney. Built in collaboration with Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils, and part-funded by Nesta, SmartJourney combines crowd-sourced and official information and weather and travel conditions in the North-East of Scotland. Anyone can view existing...

We are pleased to announce that UK public sector organisations can now buy our hosted PublishMyData service through Cloudstore. This is a new initiative, set up by the UK government G-Cloud Programme, to simplify the process of buying cloud based ICT services for public sector organisations. As...