The School of Informatics hosted the 3rd Scottish Linked Data Interest Group Workshop on the 10th September 2014, following on from two successful workshops earlier in the year organised by Jeff Pan in the University of Aberdeen. The event brought together a diverse set of about 30 people with different interests and perspectives on Linked more »
Coders of the future, and Open Data
Way back in August, cities all over the UK played host to Young Rewired State Festival of Code, the national hackathon for under 19s. Edinburgh was no exception, and every day for a week around 16 young people — mostly regulars from the Prewired coding club took up residence in the University of Edinburgh’s Appleton more »
EdinburghApps
The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC)’s first ‘civic challenge event’ took place this month, and yielded some outstanding results. This flexible hackathon launched on the 26th of September with the Council announcing its ever-increasing open data sources, the categories that submissions were to be entered in to, and the judges. Five weeks later — which more »
Open Data Day: Joined Up Edinburgh #JoinUpEd
The 23rd of February 2013 was International Open Data Day. Since this fell at the end of the ILW Hack (blogged here) — a week-long event organised for students of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, it seemed like a good opportunity to take advantage of the momentum and engage the stirring Edinburgh Open Data scene. Many Open Data Days more »