We’re happy to announce that Swirrl, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, has been awarded a contract with the Scottish Government’s Statistics Group to help them create a linked open data platform. Earlier this year we worked on OpenDataScotland, a pilot study designed to showcase how linked, open data could power smarter, more transparent...

Following on from my previous post on PublishMyData improvements, this post is all about developments for the technical users out there.

Linked Data Expert Mode

One of the features we’re most proud of is Expert Mode, which our CTO Ric wrote about for DCLG and you can check out here. Briefly, Expert Mode allows technically minded users access to...

We’ve been squirreling away recently to improve and refine our linked data publishing platform, PublishMyData. It’s been a busy summer and there are a good few changes, so this is the first of two posts about what we’ve built and how it helps you as an open data user. This first, post focuses on data browsing, site customisation,...

This week we released a refreshed version of OpenDataCommunities, DCLG’s linked open data site. It’s now stylistically more in line with the department’s gov.uk presence, plus we’ve added a blog and upgraded the data platform to the latest version of our PublishMyData platform, making it easier to access and use the data you want.

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