{"id":73227,"date":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=dee4466a2e5f7df5e4567d4fbd27f7c4"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T11:00:22","slug":"news-story-tools-for-data-compression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73227","title":{"rendered":"News story: Tools for data compression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/\">The University of Sheffield<\/a> has used Centre for Defence Enterprise (<abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr>) funding to produce a suite of tools that highly compress large databases for use with a corresponding set of mobile apps.<\/p>\n<p>For this work, the University has managed to compress data sets to less than half the size achieved by industry standard tools.<\/p>\n<p>They will now explore special gains that can be made using this compression on geographic and spatial data.<\/p>\n<p>This compression could help get data from the servers to the people in the field who need it most. While of potential use for the armed forces, this could be of benefit to any organisation with larger data sets and a large number of individuals in the field (e.g. law enforcement, charities, utilities).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adam Washington, Research Associate, University of Sheffield says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The funding from <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> provided the time for this project to go from an interesting possibility to a functional framework. Yet, the support and guidance provided by our <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> partners provided our greatest benefit, allowing us to direct and focus our work to where it could provide the most aid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Founded in 1879, the University of Sheffield employs over 7,000 staff and educates over 27,000 students.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"about-cde\">About <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> funds novel, high-risk, high-potential-benefit research. We work with the broadest possible range of science and technology providers, including academia and small companies, to develop cost-effective capabilities for UK armed forces and national security.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory\">Dstl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1917\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Centre for Defence Enterprise<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Building R103<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFermi Avenue<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">Harwell Oxford<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"region\">Oxfordshire<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">OX11 0QX<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:cde@dstl.gov.uk\">cde@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone <\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704236\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Alternative number<\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704237\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case study from the University of Sheffield who will pitch their ideas to industry and investors at the CDE Marketplace on 6 September 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}