Engaging with the Semantic Web

The world of government communications is changing and we recognise that open and linked data will be at the heart of public sector publishing for many years to come. To engage with the change we have built a great team of talented software developers with a semantic web skill base in addition to our experienced C++, C# and XML developers. TSO is the leading provider of publishing services to the public sector and opening up and transforming public data is a natural extension to our capabilities.

Recent Projects

TSO is at the forefront of working with public sector clients in open and linked data projects. Our experts help to create, structure, capture, transform and deliver some of the most important government information. As we work with clients to open up and transform their data we have been creating tools and services to help others to do the same.

Recent projects include:

• Data Enrichment Service - an automated annotation tool - try this even if you are a technophobe!
• Queryable RDF store with ready-to-use data sets
• XBRL to RDF conversion for public sector accounts (to be released via data.gov.uk)
• Government Department names ontology (accessible via data.gov.uk)
• RDF glossary of terms for the Office of Government Commerce
• Harvesting feeds of live data into the RDF store from london-gazette.co.uk and legislation.gov.uk
• Inline RDF annotation in the London Gazette
• Implementation of the linked data API

Want to Know More?

We are always looking for opportunities to help open up public data and to use semantic technologies to further enhance information use. If you would like to know more, have ideas you would like to share or think you could add value by partnering with us then please get in touch with opendata@tso.co.uk.