University of Southampton Open Data
The University of Southampton provides open access to some of our administrative data.
We believe that this will be of benefit to our own members and visitors, and increase the transparency of our operations.
Open Data Map
Linked Open Data
The executive summary: There's data we have which isn't in any way confidential which is of use to our members, visitors, and the public. If we make the data available in a structured way with a license which allows reuse then our members, or anyone else, can build tools on top of it without needless bureaucracy. That's common sense. We call it "Open Data".
For more on Open Data and it's benefits see these presentations by Southampton's Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee. They helped establish data.gov.uk the UK Government's Open Data site and are members of the Coalition Government's Transparency Board.
We publish our data in RDF format and link our identifiers to other sites in the Linked Open Data Web. This makes it much eaiser to merge data from multiple sources and other sites can link their datasets up with ours. Like the HTML Web, the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts, that's "Linked Data".
Show me the data!
Browse the list of datasets or view the links on the left to explore some of our data.
Keep Informed
If you are interested in Open Data at University of Southampton then join our mailing-list. Where possible we'll plan our open data in an open way so this list is open to the public. Because of this, it should not be used for confidential matters or security concerns.
Send an email to majordomo@lists.soton.ac.uk containing the text subscribe open-data.
Credits
The initial version of this site and data by Christopher Gutteridge, the University of Southampton Linked Open Data Architect.
The SPARQL server is managed by Dave Challis.
The University of Southampton's Open Data Champion is Nigel Shadbolt.
The various teams around the University have been massively helpful and patient. Without their data this site would be an empty box!