SwirrlSpeak

Alongside developing our online database application, we spend time talking to our users and potential users about how they can manage their data. As well as being useful to them (we hope!) this helps us understand the range of problems people are facing and gets us thinking about the kinds of solution that are needed, helping us set the future direction of our software tools.

Because this seems to be a useful activity all round, we’re now putting a bit more emphasis on it and making it more widely known that this is a service we offer. So we’ve put up a new services page on our website to give some more details.

The practical application of semantic web and linked data technologies is at the heart of what we are doing with Swirrl, and that is also the focus of our consulting work. We cover:

• Data publishing strategy
• Selection and design of ontologies
• Conversion of data to RDF
• Use of semantic web technologies for data integration and exchange

This work is not directly related to Swirrl the product: it’s about addressing our clients’ data sharing issues and advising on how the semantic web and linked data can contribute to a solution.

If you’d like to know more, drop us a line at consulting@swirrl.com