We dream of a world where all social networks are connected and work together in a way similar to email. Our projects aims to define a language to bridge these networks and make it easy for social networks to join a bigger social web. You're invited to help make this a reality.

SMW+ is a semantic enterprise Wiki for teams that need a human-readable and agile knowledge base for collaborating on rich text and data in their daily work.

OpenScales is an open source (LGPL) mapping framework written in ActionScript 3 and Flex that enables developers to build Rich Internet Mapping Applications.

We are Directgov's agile development team, exploring new and innovative digital technologies and engaging with the developer community. You can use this site to access all our latest projects.

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

Open data expert Paul Clarke explains how he would change the government's open data project

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

Where can I find a list of airports with their locations? Where can I find historical weather data? How do I find the county from a postcode or a state from a zipcode? How do I find a book title from its ISBN? What's the best tool(s) for scraping data from websites? Is there a way to get RDF Linked Data in a format that you can use?

A useful link/resource for Knowledge Hub (to be added to the MindMap)

The Knowledge Hub programme aims to create a single window to improvement in local government. It will use Web 2.0 technology and services, and build on the current community of practice platform, to support networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing.

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.

McKinsey's new survey research finds that companies using the Web intensively gain greater market share and higher margins.

Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and Business Minister Edward Davey have outlined plans for a new Public Data Corporation. The Corporation will, for the first time, bring together Government bodies and data into one organisation and provide an unprecedented level of easily accessible public information and drive further efficiency in the delivery of public services.

The Upload page lets a council officer, logged in to esd-toolkit, upload a CSV (comma separated variables) spreadsheet of spending data for hosting as Linked Data or download in various tidied formats, including Linked Data for local hosting.

The Innovation Hub is a virtual space enabling digital innovation of public services.

Virtual Government Network Collaboration Framework. The framework elements generic in the sense that they could apply to any large-scale collaboration network; in this example they have been populated with the Virtual Government Network in mind.

The premise of an app store model for enterprises is simple: By removing the middleman, the famous bottleneck between the business and IT demand can be reduced in many cases. Application backlogs can shrink, consumption of internal and external IT resources will increase, and fierce competition to provide the best solutions to niches can greatly improve overall quality (the long tail of IT argument), all while reducing costs. At least, that's what is possible if we look at what's happening to the non-enterprise software market today.

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Weak Signal Sensing - by Bill Ives

Discussing the chaos emerging from Web 2.0 and how our Darwin Awareness Engine™ can help! Also exploring applications of eDiscovery within the enterprise. In addition, we offer our thoughts on the broader Web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 marketplace