Author: Leigh Dodds

CTO at EnergySparks (https://energysparks.uk), previously Director of Delivery at the Open Data Institute. Proud Dad.

Creating an Application Using the British National Bibliography

This is the fourth and final post in a series (1, 2, 3, 4) of providing background and tutorial material about the British National Bibliography. The tutorials were written as part of some freelance work I did for the British Library at the end of 2012. The material was used as input to creating the … Continue reading Creating an Application Using the British National Bibliography →

Accessing the British National Bibliography Using SPARQL

This is the third in a series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4) providing background and tutorial material about the British National Bibliography. The tutorials were written as part of some freelance work I did for the British Library at the end of 2012. The material was used as input to creating the new documentation … Continue reading Accessing the British National Bibliography Using SPARQL →

Loading the British National Bibliography into an RDF Database

This is the second in a series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4) providing background and tutorial material about the British National Bibliography. The tutorials were written as part of some freelance work I did for the British Library at the end of 2012. The material was used as input to creating the new documentation … Continue reading Loading the British National Bibliography into an RDF Database →

An Introduction to the British National Bibliography

This is the first of a series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4) providing background and tutorial material about the British National Bibliography. The tutorials were written as part of some freelance work I did for the British Library at the end of 2012. The material was used as input to creating the new documentation … Continue reading An Introduction to the British National Bibliography →

Research: investigation into publishing open election data

Originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original URL: https://theodi.org/blog/election-data-tables A number of people at the ODI have recently been looking at the topic of open election data, asking how election results could be collected, reported and analysed in order to increase transparency and drive democratic engagement. For example the technology team recently developed an … Continue reading Research: investigation into publishing open election data →

Publishing open statistical data

At the request of the ONS, the ODI tech team have recently been exploring some ideas around publishing statistical open data. This blog post shares some of the results of that thinking and you can also explore a proof-of-concept that showcases some of these ideas with real-world data. Obviously, there are plenty of existing best practices for data … Continue reading Publishing open statistical data →

Introducing CSVLint

Originally published on the Open Data Institute blog. Original URL: https://theodi.org/blog/introducing-csvlint The ODI tech team has recently been building a tool to validate CSV files. While CSV is a very simple format, it is surprisingly easy to create files that are hard for others to use. The tool we've created is called CSVLint and this blog post provides … Continue reading Introducing CSVLint →

The multiverse in which we play

If the Many Worlds hypothesis is true then we are living in a multiverse of parallel realities and alternate histories. Everything that could have happened did happen. At least somewhere. There are different views of how these parallel universes might differ from one another, forming complete taxonomies of universe types. It's interesting to consider what kind of … Continue reading The multiverse in which we play →