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Open and linked data spend application for the Knowledge Hub

Develop an app for Warwickshire Open data and win an IPad

New approaches to information, data sharing and engagement are helping local public services work more closely with citizens. Using social media strategically and opening up public data can have significant benefits to citizens and local government. The following are some examples and resources available to support collaborative working.

Ask and answer questions about getting, using and sharing data!

Simon Rogers and Charles Arthur examine whether data.gov.uk has lived up to its promise

Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks)

US Gov site sharing community data

This could be a good way of explaining to people the power of data mashing in a visual way

Google data visualisation tool - works only with CSV or KML files

URIBurner takes an existing Web-accessible resource (webpage, media) and generates an RDF graph of its metadata using existing well-known ontologies as well as site-specific knowledge. URIBurner then re-presents this data as either a new HTML webpage, or directly as RDF in a variety of serializations (RDF/XML, text/n3, turtle, JSON).

A simple but powerful service that delivers RDF-based structured descriptions of Web addressable resources (documents or real world objects) in a variety of formats through Generic HTTP URIs. The underlying technology is Virtuoso's Sponger, which takes an existing Web-accessible resource (webpage, media) and generates an RDF graph of its metadata using existing well-known ontologies as well as site-specific knowledge. URIBurner then re-presents this data as either a new HTML webpage, or directly as RDF in a variety of serializations (RDF/XML, text/n3, turtle, JSON).

Data mashup application

Open Data Swcase: UK General Election

Gov/Local Gov open data survey by Tim Davies

Councils with open data