ADAPT Centre and OSi make COVID Data More Accessible

Researchers at ADAPT, the SFI Research Centre for Digital Media Technology hosted by Trinity College Dublin, and Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) have enabled open data access to researchers and app developers to the COVID-19 Health surveillance monitor via the Geohive’s Dataportal (http://data.geohive.ie) and the government’s Open Data portal (http://data.gov.ie).

The COVID-19 Health Surveillance Monitor (Ireland) data that is being regularly published through gov.ie and government websites, is now available as open data in the high quality (5-star) Linked Open Data format at http://data.geohive.ie/covidData.html and at https://data.gov.ie/dataset/covid-19-linked-data-frontend.

This linked data format will facilitate easier data integration into data analysis systems and web apps being developed by researchers and app developers.

The data.geohive.ie portal has been developed by Ordnance Survey Ireland and the SFI ADAPT research centre for the publication of geospatial related data as Linked Open Data. Data.geohive.ie allows third parties to consult authoritative administrative boundary data, selected data about buildings and enable the development of novel applications on top of these.