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Data Sources
###Here are some sources of data for use in the Hackdays.
Scottish Government spreadsheets in Exhibit JSON format http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/scraping/SG/current_spreadsheets.json
Scottish Government PDF documentsin Exhibit JSON format http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/scraping/SG_PDF/current_PDF.json
Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics data in XML format with a REST API http://labs.data.scotland.gov.uk/sns/
Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics data - Linked Data format with SPARQL endpoint http://www.opendatascotland.org/
Scottish Government utilities consumption data (daily and half-hourly data) in Linked Data format with SPARQL endpoint http://cofog01.data.scotland.gov.uk. See http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/sustainabilityperformance/Data for examples of visualisations of this data.
NOMIS Official UK labour market statistics - XML and JSON data with an API http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/api/v01/help
SEPA Surface Waters data - Linked Data format with a SPARQL endpoint http://data.sepa.org.uk/
Environment Agency (E&W) Bathing waters data - Linked Data format with SPARQL endpoint http://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/
British National Bibliography - Linked Data format with SPARQL endpoint http://bnb.data.bl.uk/
Edina Unlock service - a REST API that finds locations in free text [you need to set up an account to use this service] http://edina.ac.uk/unlock/texts/
Ordnance Survey Maps and Linked Data http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org
International Aid Transparency Data http://www.iatiregistry.org/
Glasgow Open Data Catalogue http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/
Edinburgh Open Data http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory/123/open_data_sets
Aberdeen Open Data http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/open_data/open_data_home.asp
DBPedia http://dbpedia.org/sparql
RCAHMS Vocabularies http://heritagedata.org/test/getAllSchemes.php
If you can't find something suitable in the above list then other places to go include http://www.data.gov.uk and https://index.okfn.org/
###Introduction to SPARQL
http://data.opendatascotland.org/docs#sparql-introduction
https://www.cambridgesemantics.com/en_GB/semantic-university/learn-sparql
Flint SPARQL Editor http://www.semantechs.co.uk/FlintSparqlEditor/sparql-editor.html