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The Jive Apps SDK beta provides a library of resources for creating and publishing Jive Apps. These resources include the APIs used to access information, the tooling to create, upload, and manage your apps, and the infrastructure provided by the Apps Market. The following table presents the high-level concepts in the SDK. Once you're familiar with these concepts, you can jump right in and build your first app by following the Jive Apps Basics Tutorial.

in other words innovate or die...

Having trouble persuading your managers of the benefits of open data? Or just need persuading yourself? Well here we try convincing all of you. What follows is a Q&A compiled initially by Dan Slee of Walsall Council and Stuart Harrison of Lichfield District Council. The first part is a bit of background information, the second part comprises some responses to common arguments. This work is ongoing, and this page will occasionally be updated accordingly. You can watch and contribute on the Open Local Data wiki

Open PSI is a collaboration between the University of Southampton and the UK government, lead by the National Archive, to trial a new form of community provisioned information service. This is a new form of "community provisioned" Information Service where we hope to stimulate interaction between the following communities: public sector information publishers, the research community, mashup creators

This is the developer area of the Legislation API. It's not just for developers though! Anybody interested in getting their hands on legislation or linking to it will find useful information. The Legislation API Developer Zone gives complete documentation for all of the available functionality. You can follow development of this project on Twitter using #opsidev and on the PerSpectIves, the OPSI blog.

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.

So you've got some data that you'd like to be Linked Data? The principles are simple but the devil is in the detail. With PublishMyData our aim is to make it as easy as possible for you to go from an Excel file or CSV export from your database to high quality Linked Data, following the established standards and emerging best practices. Perhaps more importantly though, we want to make sure that your data actually gets used.