Making data work

Data sharing for people and machines. Open-source tools, research, and education that make data findable, accessible, and usable — whether the consumer is a human or an AI agent.

Projects

February

A data space for exploring, collaborating on, and sharing geospatial data.

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Django MapLibre Geospatial

Ontology Explorer

See your data model. Navigate classes, properties, and relationships visually.

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Django D3.js Linked Data

MQA

Score your data catalogue against European metadata quality standards. Know what to fix first.

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Django Data Quality DCAT-AP

Oireachtas Viz

Parliamentary analytics for the Oireachtas. Attendance, contributions, and voting patterns made visible.

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Django D3.js Open Data Democracy

Sunday

A calendar-based data exploration tool. Upload temporal datasets and see them on a timeline.

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Django D3.js Open Data

MCP Tooling

Make your data queryable by AI agents, including private databases, all in the control of the data holder.

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Python MCP AI CKAN

GeoSPARQL Endpoint

A spatial linked data endpoint. 21,900 datasets from data.gov.ie, enriched and queryable.

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Fuseki PostGIS Linked Data Geospatial

Gate

Token-based access control for any web application. One gateway, one line of middleware, done.

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Django Auth

TileServer

Self-hosted vector tile basemaps from PMTiles. No third-party tile service required.

Live

Django PMTiles MapLibre Geospatial

CKAN Gateway

Your data catalogue as a broker. CKAN discovering and proxying access to data wherever it lives.

Coming Soon

CKAN Data Spaces

DDSP

Derilinx Data Space Platform. Connecting Irish base registries into a functioning data space.

Coming Soon

Data Spaces Base Registries

Akoma Ntoso

Structured legislative documents for Ireland. Acts and bills as machine-readable XML.

Under Consideration

XML Legislation Open Data

Writing

Technical

From CKAN API to GeoSPARQL: Building Ireland’s Spatial Discovery Layer

How we harvested 21,900 datasets, enriched them with geometries, and made them queryable with a click on a map.

5 April 2025

Whitepaper

CKAN as a Data Gateway: Beyond the Portal

Your catalogue already knows where data lives. What if it could broker access to it too?

10 March 2025

ELI5

What is a data space?

Not a database. Not a portal. A data space is an agreement — with infrastructure to enforce it — about who can access what data, under what conditions.

1 February 2025

What If?

What if every Irish government dataset was on one map?

Flood risk, heritage, bathing water, sewage outfalls — all from authoritative sources, none of them currently connected. February changes that.

15 January 2025