Feb 10 2010
Using SPARQL & the data.gov.uk school data
So i’ve been busy beavering away on the myDistrict project I’m developing for Stratford-on-Avon District Council, and part of this project is to retrieve various datasets from numerous API’s to enable the Stratford residents to get all their local information in one place.
The basics are there, and we’ll be gathering the residents geo information when they register (or upgrade their existing website account) so we are able to query all these fantastic datasets from www.data.gov.uk and more.
A bit stuck at first, I asked the Open Data guru from Lichfield District Council, Stuart Harrison, for some pointers. Stuart was very kind as to email through some sample code and links to blogs which reference the calls needed to access and unleash the data.
I thought I’d share some of this with you all, do with it what you will!