This is an informal list of amenities around our main campus, if you would like to help contribute, get in touch! To keep the list reasonable, we are only including amenities on, or very close to our campuses. An exception is made for things further away which are the nearest thing of that type, such as train stations, the airport and public services.
A catalog of known websites, web widgets, phone apps and other tools using our datasets.
We have a blog on the University's Wordpress site. This dataset is that blog, represented in RDF, using the SIOC vocabulary.
This is a list of external building entrances and exits.
This data is a slightly modified (and therefore non-authoritative) version of the council's bus network information. We're still working on it but we're pretty sure the URIs won't change again. Regardless, please use with caution.
This dataset gives the name and location, and sometimes menus, to get food and drink. The data is sourced from several different organisations including Retail Services and the Nuffield Theatre. No prices listed should be considered a binding offer.
This dataset should be used in conjunction with the Catering dataset. It contains the menu for points of sale that change daily.
This dataset should be used in conjunction with the Catering dataset. It contains the menu (in printable format) for points of sale that change daily.
This dataset should be used in conjunction with the Catering dataset and the printable menus. It contains the menu for the blue room.
Daily Menus - Print Version for Blue Room
This dataset contains extra data to augment the room features dataset. It is maintained outside the syllabus database. It includes alternate names for some Common Learning Spaces, information on access and links to depictions.
Common Learning Spaces Extra Information
Academic courses and programs for 2014 onwards
A catalog of known open or linked datasets provided by the University of Southampton
DisabledGo provide information for people with disabilities about many buildings and points of service at the University of Southampton. This dataset provides links from our URIs for these things to the disabled go HTML documents describing each. Also includes links to pages about stations and the airport.
This dataset is generated once a day. It creates the UK OSGB36 format Easting and Northing for every resource which has a WGS84 latitude and longitude. It only applies this to lat/long from datasets which are (a) published by the University of Southampton and (b) marked "Authoritative".
Open Access Teaching and Learning Resources.
Currently these videos are stored on a separate server from the rest of EdShare, due to resource constrains, and in due course this will be merged into EdShare. Only categories where all or most videos are available to the public have been included in the export to the open data server.
This dataset maps buildings to their energy use time-series. Some buildings may have multiple time series, some are shared between two buildings. This data is provided by the role of Energy Manager in the BEMS team in buildings and estates.
Research outputs of the University of Southampton. Does not currently include all items from ECS which are available from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Links between the documents and people in the deprecated ECS EPrints repository, and their equivalents in the unified UoS repository.
This data is aggregated hourly from websites and data sources all around the University of Southampton. No license is formally designated as the information is aggregated from multiple sources.
Facilities and Equipment of the University of Southampton.
This data is pulled weekly from http://ratings.food.gov.uk .
Labels, latitudes and longitudes of areas in and around Southampton. Use in conjunction with other spatial datasets to make cool stuff. We get this information from dbpedia.org.
This describes the heirarchy of JACS codes which are the broader categories above UCAS codes. This is used to join UCAS codes in the programmes data to the student statistics data.
This dictionary is created by a number of volunteers in iSolutions and other professional services to help people learn the terms used to describe our processes and infrastructure. It should not be considered a definitive answer, but should help with confusing emails or meetings. If you would like to contribute please contact cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk
A list of all the online courses that the University has licensed from Lynda.com. All staff are permitted to use these courses, please see http://www.southampton.ac.uk/pdu/ for more information.
This list of organisations and organisational units is taken from the table used by the "MUD" directory, so may not be authoritative. The University organisation is currently changing so these identifiers should be treated with caution.
A dataset featuring the locations of all council-run car parks in Southampton.
The contact details of members of the university who have agreed to appear in the public phonebook.
This dataset describes photographic depictions of our buildings, and other things. Photographs are available in a variety of sizes and licenced under creative commons 'cc-by' (or public domain). As well as the full-size jpgs, there are jpgs of each image scaled to widths 100, 200, 300, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 pixels.
Photographs of University of Southampton Things
Open Org Places Document describing buildings, and other geospacial entities related to the University of Southampton. Data about completion dates and architects has not been formally verified and should not be treated as definitive.
Details of all the known Pokestops on campus.
The schedule for the University swimming pool.
A list of people at the University who are willing to talk about the press, and what subjects they have registered that they are willing to be contacted about.
A document describing the University of Southampton. Maintained by hand by the open data team.
University of Southampton Profile Document
The University's annual published financial statements are available below in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
University room bookings data, linked to room URIs.
WAIS room bookings data, linked to room URIs.
Web and Internet Science Research Group Room Bookings
This is a list of divisions in open plan office and lab areas.
This dataset describes the features of rooms (and some other places which aren't rooms) as described by the university syllabus database. This dataset includes all bookable locations and their features, such as capacity, seating layout, and facilities.
This is a list of rooms and their positions in real space. Big thanks to Christopher Baines for doing the initial work on this dataset as part of map.soton.
This data set is not yet very complete. It will eventually contain details of many points of service. This information is sourced from many people, but changes slowly.
A list of all the showers on campus. Please be advised, some of these showers are in areas that are inaccessible by some members of the University.
A list of Southampton alumni and links to their DBPedia URIs.
Labels, latitudes and longitudes of food and drink outlets in Southampton. Use in conjunction with other spatial datasets to make cool stuff. We get this information from food.gov.uk.
A partial dump of Ordnance Survey's postcode data, covering the positions of every postcode beginning with 'SO'. Contains Ordnance Survey data Crown copyright and database right 2013. Contains Royal Mail data Royal Mail copyright and database right 2013. Contains National Statistics data Crown copyright and database right 2013.
Labels, latitudes and longitudes of useful non-university-related things in Southampton. Use in conjunction with other spatial datasets to make cool stuff. We get this information from dbpedia.org (notable buildings, landmarks, etc) and food.gov.uk (food-serving establishments).
This dataset contains data extracted from data downloaded from the spreadsheet http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/ No license is attached as it is unclear, but we've included this data to demonstrate the power linking up open data can have. We hope that one day this dataset will be eventually replaced by Open Linked Data directly from Unistats!
A set of links from our bus and train station URIs into the government "Naptan", and other URI schemes.
The location of bus stops relative to campuses.
Key dates within the University of Southampton's timetable, specifically semester start and end dates.
Current job vacancies at the University of Southampton, exposed as linked open data. Please see http://purl.org/openorg/ for the ontology we are using.
A document describing the RDF custom classes and properties that we have created for use in our datasets.
16 day weather forecast from http://www.openweathermap.org/
This dataset lists some of the wifi points at the University of Southampton.
A list of iSolutions workstation clusters. This includes how many machines there are and how many are in use. Updated every 5 minutes. It is created from an XML file provided by iSolutions.
This dataset describes the opening times for iSolutions workstation clusters.
A description of Erica the rhino and white rhinos in general, pulled from various places that have information on white rhinos.
An RDF representation of Erica's brain, including her long and short term memories.
Information on baby animals born in zoos.
A guide to the locations of all of Erica's friends!
Make your stuff available on the web (whatever format)
Make it available as structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
Non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel)
Use URLs to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
Link your data to other people’s data to provide context