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Project management for hack days.

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

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

Today we're introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. It draws on the expertise of folks within Google Research who have been studying collaboration, data integration, and user requirements from a variety of domains. Fusion Tables is not a traditional database system focusing on complicated SQL queries and transaction processing. Instead, the focus is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we get feedback from users.

Michael, It's interesting that I had already Diigo bookmarked Google Fusion Labs on 26th August. This illustrates something I was observing with Steve the other day; that social bookmarking seems to be 'one-way'. In other words we all stuff things into Diigo, but why? Other than transitory email alerts to new bookmarks, I have no feel for emerging themes, or common bookmarks via Diigo. This is something the Knowledge Hub will no doubt surface in activity streams and emerging themes (I hope!)

Ask questions - get answers

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.

A cool app showing which councils are publishing their spending data, whether the data is released with an 'open' licence, and whether is it available as 'linked data' (machine readable).

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

The Local Government Group (LGG) is launching a "Knowledge Hub" development for 2011 that will support service improvement, efficiencies and innovation across local government

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.

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.

A high-level, informal discussion piece about the possibilities of linked data and some of the realities of open data.

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

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

Ideas forum for co-design

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)

Gov/Local Gov open data survey by Tim Davies

An example of Twitter Setiment based on the search term Knowledge Management

Armchair Auditor lets you see how your council spends your money.