Swirrl wins Open Data Challenge prize for Manchester bus data
We (Swirrl) were really pleased to hear yesterday that we were the winners of the Talis Award for Linked Data, one of the prizes in the Open Data Challenge, a Europe-wide competition run by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Open Forum Academy. The award was for our Linked Data version of the Greater Manchester bus timetable data.
Its running on our PublishMyData Linked Data platform. You can access the data in a variety of formats including HTML, JSON and XML over a RESTful interface… or you can run custom queries against our db (full api docs here). If anyone’s got any questions about how to use it, I’d be happy to help – just drop me a mail. We’re a few days away from getting an auto-updating version going, which regularly picks up the most recent data timetable data from TfGM (the data is currently a few weeks out of date but still mostly pretty accurate).
You can read more about the award and the process we went through to create the Linked Data, on Swirrl’s blog, here.
