Swirrl

We’ve been hard at work recently creating a new linked open data site for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). This is a major overhaul and extension of the OpenDataCommunities site that we first set up last year, with a new design, lots more data and new features...

On 1st March we’ll be starting our ‘City of Things’ project, part of the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Internet of Things Convergence’ programme. Our project will be looking at the application of the Internet of Things to management of the urban built...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I participated in the Developing Solutions Camp in Gravesend, run by Kent Connects (an alliance of public service providers in Kent). I originally intended to attend in the role of mentor/“critical friend”, but everyone seemed to know what they...

Later this month I’m going to be attending Kent County Council’s Developing Solutions Camp, and earlier today, I posted a guest blog article on the Open Kent website as part of the build-up to the event. Studies around open data often focus on the “armchair auditor”, and...

Due to the growing success of the Linked Data aspect of our business (based around our PublishMyData platform) we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down our SwirrlWiki service at the end of November. We only have limited resources here at Swirrl, and it’s important for us to be...

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about an app that Steve Peters has built for visualising the Indices of Multiple Deprivation data. We’ve just released an app of our own: the IMD Mapper. (The initial view is of Manchester, because that’s where Ric’s office is, but the data...

Last week Steve Peters announced his excellent visualisation app for the English Indices of Multiple Deprivation (Steve’s blog post and the visualisation itself). It allows you to explore the deprivation rankings in various domains (overall, crime, health, education etc), highlighting the...

We had another successful Scottish Linked Data hackday last week. Around a dozen keen linked data folks spent a day at Inspace, part of the Edinburgh University Informatics Forum, working away on a variety of linked data projects. Several more folks joined for the end of day presentations and...