UK Open Data data vignette

[Hugh Glaser]

The ODI (http://theodi.org) has published a research report, "Research: 
Open data means business" (http://theodi.org/open-data-means-business), 
along with a Google sheet of Open Data Companies 
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwxNIaxXSEMLktb-oo1UoYTd5WMPFkRLytRVVBr5OMA).

It seemed a nice idea to map the companies and make the data accessible 
as 5 * Open Data at http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com

So we have loaded the company data into a Linked Data store with a 
SPARQL endpoint (http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/sparql/), and 
made the URIs resolve, such as 
http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/id/company/od001

We have also used the UK postcodes (and OS services) to plot the 
companies on a map: http://opendatacompanies.data.seme4.com/services/map/

There you go.
This is all a little rough-and-ready, just to see what it looks like, 
and see if anyone wants to use it. If you do, and want any changes, 
please ask.

Actually, if anyone wanted to produce a similar GSheet for other places, 
we could suck that in too.

Best
Hugh