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OpenUp Platform
The OpenUp platform is a collection of integrated services available as Software as a Service (SaaS) allowing fast deployment at a reasonable cost. Together, the services provide a highly scalable and resilient platform that allows you to store, retrieve, query and enrich your data. To find out more about any of these services or how they can be combined to create a managed data publishing service please email us at opendata@tso.co.uk.
Download our Information Sheet about the OpenUp platform (PDF)
RDF Store for Linked Data
To handle the linked data aspects of OpenUp, we provide an RDF datastore to hold RDF and make it available to query. Our datastore offering is built around 5Store, a highly scalable, clustered, commercial database storage and query engine that hosts RDF data. 5Store was designed and developed by Garlik, leaders in semantic technology. TSO’s RDF store is designed to scale across more than 1,000 servers and host well over a trillion triples.
We provide a number of standards based data access and query options including SPARQL for easy integration with new and existing applications.
To find out more read our FAQs.
Data Harvesting
A database is no use without any data. Our harvesting system can pull data from the web or from supplied files and provides increasingly sophisticated means of controlling the acquisition of data.
For example it is possible to schedule data collection at a predetermined time each day, or, as another example, it is also possible to throttle the level of requests so that a system is not overloaded. We can work with you to create a harvesting system that works for your data.
Data Enrichment Service
If you are handling mainly unstructured text that you know has information hidden away inside it, then the Data Enrichment Service, available within the platform, will help you to get at that information. If does this by 'extracting' useful items of information, such as peoples' names, organisations or places. The extracted information can be made available in a variety of formats to suit the requirements of the user.
One of the formats that is available is RDF/XML. This information can then be stored in the triplestore making it available for querying. The combination of extraction and triplestore provides a powerful approach to maximising the information potential of documents.
The Data Enrichment Service is actually infrastructure for information extraction and consists of the DES Starter, described here, as well as the ability to host vertical applications.
TSO's standard Data Enrichment Service Starter service is free to use. For data publishers needing to enrich more than 10,000 documents per day with an SLA, we can offer the Professional version of the Data Enrichment Service for a monthly fee.
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Read more about the Data Enrichment Service (PDF)
Professional Services
We have a team of talented developers who can help you to capture, transform and deliver your data in the most efficient way and in line with the Public Sector Transparency Board Principles. We have already delivered a range of projects for our clients including the creation of APIs to access linked data. For further information please see our Professional Services page.
Web Development and Hosting
Having opened up your data, we can also help to develop and host the resulting web applications. We can create websites (this OpenUp website has been created in Drupal) and host them with our website hosting service, certified to ISO 27001 Information Security Standard.
Scalability and Resilience
At the heart of the platform is the ability to scale - and to do so in a resilient manner. The platform can be expanded at all levels so if a client has particular needs then we can expand that part of the system. If required, we can provide dedicated hardware for you for those parts of the system where you need that extra level of performance.
In addition the platform will provide geographic failover so that, in the event of disaster at one data centre there is the reassurance that downtime will be minimal.
Future Developments
Although our platform already provides powerful capabilities we have lots more planned! We will be bringing the following on stream over the next few months:
- Push data into the system
- Push data to other systems as new data arrives
- A suite of management tools
As we develop the platform we would very much like to hear from you about what you would like from the system - your requirements will drive our development! Email us at opendata@tso.co.uk
Data Enrichment Service
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