Epimorphics Ltd

Epimorphics Linked Data Publishing

Epimorphics provides comprehensive support services to complement our Data Platforms. This includes targeted consultancy, data modelling, software design and development services to support organisations exploring, designing, managing, publishing and using linked-data, graph data and data APIs. Our service provides dedicated help in planning, setup, migration, testing and ongoing support.

Features

  • reference data, URI set and ontology development
  • explore, understand and design data for re-use
  • integrate discovery, descriptive and structural metadata with your data
  • data service design for publishing and internal data integration
  • ongoing support and hosting for your data services
  • app and user interface tailoring
  • data, vocabulary and schema modelling and design
  • best practice and standards focused data API design
  • advanced UI and front-end app development for specific user needs
  • end-to-end data publishing pipeline

Benefits

  • create a strategy for publishing your data as 5-star data
  • maximise internal data integration
  • model and publish 5-star data
  • integrate into your business systems and workflows
  • user centred data publishing platform
  • great user feedback on developer friendly data APIs
  • ensure your data complies with the FAIR principles
  • develop tailored formats for data APIs
  • end-to-end service development
  • maximise data sharing for maximum reuse

Pricing

£550 to £1,500 a unit a day

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

1 8 5 0 3 1 2 1 7 3 2 0 8 5 3

Contact

Epimorphics Ltd Alex Coley
Telephone: 0127 5399069
Email: gcloud@epimorphics.com

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
We can help you: scope out a project - identify suitable datasets for publication and produce a complete project plan; model your data, selecting existing ontologies to use whenever appropriate and developing new ontologies if needed; design suitable URIsets, and data cubes complying with international and UK Government best practice; identify reference data that can provide a point of connection between multiple datasets; help you to design your data to meet user needs; transform your data into linked data using these models and URIsets; review data architectures and make recommendations; design and configure data APIs that support internal and external users and applications. With this we provide data design or data architecture support that helps you make your data valuable, usable, useful and interoperable. All a key part of meeting your data strategy and organisational goals.
Planning service works with specific services
Yes
Hosting or software services the planning service works with
  • Epimorphics Linked Data Publishing Platform
  • Epimorphics Data Integration & Publishing Platform
  • Epimorphics Reference Data Management Platform (Registry)
  • Other Linked Data, Semantic Web and Graph data solutions

Training

Training service provided
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
We help organisations migrate from their legacy data platforms onto a cloud-first Epimorphics platform. This can be in one-go or as a phased transformation. We provide technical support and data design for mapping and transformation of their data from legacy formats or structures into the platform. We can help: model and design your data, selecting existing ontologies to use whenever appropriate and developing new ontologies if needed; design suitable URIsets, and data cubes complying with international and UK Government best practice; identify reference data that can provide a point of connection between multiple datasets. We help transform your data using these models and URIsets; publish your data through our Platforms, a third party publishing platform of your choice, or using in-house infrastructure; help develop end-user applications on top of your data, making your data available to the people who need it the form that is most appropriate for them; building connectors into your existing systems and workflows, whether for real and near real time data or less frequently updated reference data; migrate and test data within your or our systems; use other organisations' linked data and integrate it into your workflows.
Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
Yes
List of supported services
  • Epimorphics Linked Data Publishing Platform
  • Epimorphics Data Integration & Publishing Platform
  • Epimorphics Reference Data Management Platform (Registry)
  • Other Linked Data, Semantic Web and Graph data solutions

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
No

Security testing

Security services
No

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
Yes
Types of service supported
Hosting or software provided by your organisation
How the support service works
We provide additional support options for users of our Platforms.

Service scope

Service constraints
No

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Dependent upon specific implementation. Generally within 4 hours during support hours (08:30-17:00, Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays). See Service Definition documents for full details.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
No
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Customers can use this service to provide additional support days for our Linked Data Publication Platform or other platforms. Support levels are agreed during the set-up of the services and costed using our SFIA rate card.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

- We regularly assess our full carbon footprint, to quantify, as far as possible, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the operations of Epimorphics, the services that we use and the services that we run for others.

- We have assessed and been audited for our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, reducing where possible and offsetting where not.

- Our company values promote support for the environment in all aspects of our work. We evaluate contracts we accept to see if a successful outcome to the contract will have a beneficial effect on our environment.

- We operate as a Carbon Neutral plus organisation, and publish our footprint details as part of our sustainability statement here: https://www.epimorphics.com/sustainability-summary-statement
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

- Connecting and using data in new innovative ways, and providing it to others for re-use via the web, encourages delivery of remote, modern digital services and new ways of working.

- Information Technology is a high-growth industry. We are based in the South West of England and an alumnus of the business incubator and enterprise partnership SetSquared. As a growing SME we look to provide flexible opportunities directly to our staff and indirectly through the data services we provide via GCloud.

- We operate a flexible working approach, designed to be able to adapt to changing needs. Our workforce can operate remotely to maintain social distancing and avoid unsustainable travel solutions. In reopening our workplace we have implemented government guidelines to ensure the safety of our team and customers.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

- Information Technology is a high-growth industry. We are based in the South West of England and an alumnus of the business incubator and enterprise partnership SetSquared. As a growing SME we look to provide flexible opportunities directly to our staff and indirectly through the data services we provide via GCloud.

- We have regularly run a paid summer internship programme with a number of practical, technical internship projects. These have been successfully completed by 15 students and re-trainees since 2016, supporting their career development. Some have taken up employment at Epimorphics after they have finished their studies.

- We work with local universities to explore student projects, and have supported the University of Bristol in running a Computer Science Student project working with visualisation software on public sector data.

- We are 100% employee owned SME adding to the diversity of the supply chain. We are a Tech Talent Charter Signatory - a commitment to work together in the industry to increase the inclusion and diversity of the tech workforce in the UK in a measurable way. We are committed to achieving greater inclusion and diversity in our team, providing equal opportunity for all.

- We work in an innovative, disruptive, evolving sector. We have a strong R&D investment and are growing our technology product base as we scale-up and evolve.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

- We are 100% employee owned SME adding to the diversity of the supply chain. We are a Tech Talent Charter Signatory - a commitment to work together in the industry to increase the inclusion and diversity of the tech workforce in the UK in a measurable way. We are committed to achieving greater inclusion and diversity in our team, providing equal opportunity for all.

- As a growing SME, we have recruitment practices that work with others to support our inclusion commitments. The original motivation for our flexible working policy was to ensure that we provided equal opportunities for disabled people, and we continue to ensure that there are no barriers to hiring disabled people.

- We work with local branches of groups support IT education for people from different backgrounds e.g. Rails Girls, a charity helping girls learn IT skills.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

- We improve health and wellbeing in our workforce as part of being a people centred organisation. We are 100% employee owned and so our people are core to who we are.

- We have always provided a flexible working environment, allowing our employees to work from home or in co-working environments as well as from our offices. When Covid meant that working from home full-time was necessary we invested in ensuring that all our employees had a suitable working environment, and continue to monitor this.

- We look to maximise our social impact in working with others, this includes the projects we do but also the suppliers that we use. For example, we consider local businesses and other SMEs as a priority in our procurement practices.

- We improve community integration by collaborating with digital service users in user experience design and testing.

- A portion of our profits from this and other contracts are used to support our local community, for example in donating to local schools to enable them to procure IT equipment.

Pricing

Price
£550 to £1,500 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at gcloud@epimorphics.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.