10: Robin Gower: Why I care about identifiers

In this episode, Sarah talks to Robin Gower about why he cares about identifiers: what they are, why he thinks they’re useful; where you can find them and how you can get into using them yourself. From his early frustrations which encouraged him to work with identifiers, to his more recent work with publishing data with government organisations, Robin shares his insights, experiences and hopes for the future. 

Robin Gower works as a Data Designer at Swirrl, where he helps publishers to express their datasets with linked-data and he has 15 years experience consulting as an economist and statistician for the UK public and social sectors. He was a founding member of Open Data Manchester and has written, and continues to maintain, several open source software libraries.

Links

Robin on twitter @robsteranium

Swirrl on twitter @swirrl

csvw.org

schema.org

swirrl.com

Ordnance survey ontologies

Ordnance Survey coordinates transformation tool 
Wikidata
W3C Standards

Gov.uk guidance on publishing reference data