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A letter from Prime Minister David Cameron to Government departments on plans to open up Government data * Historic COINS spending data to be published online in June 2010. * All new central government ICT contracts to be published online from July 2010. * All new central government lender documents for contracts over £10,000 to be published on a single website from September 2010, with this information to be made available to the public free of charge. * New items of central government spending over £25,000 to be published online from November 2010. * All new central government contracts to be published in full from January 2011. * Full information on all DFID international development projects over £500 to be published online from January 2011, including financial information and project documentation.

Warwickshire County Council is taking open and linked data seriously. They're opening up data and supporting the developer community to do something useful with it through a Hack Warwickshire competition (open til 25 June). And they're open to suggestions of what data should be open next.

Linked data for the University of Oxford

Salford has a range of open data feeds. A lot of these are around council decisions and council meetings. The requirement to publish this information has been overshadowed a little bit by the announcement of the requirement to publish all expenditure over £500. So it's great to see Salford's example of a nice clean page with lots of different feeds covering governance arrangements, job openings, councillor information and an always useful "what's on" listings.

"These statements of architectural principle explain the thinking behind the semantic web specifications. These are personal notes by Tim Berners-Lee: they are not endorsed by W3C. They are aimed at the technical community, to explain reasons, provide a framework to provide consistency for for future developments, and avoid repetition of discussions once resolved. "

Tim Berners Lee explains the 5 stars of open linked data, where each star represents a further step in the journey towards publishing data which is compliant with open linked data standards. Also a neat and simple description of linked data, ontologies and vocabularies using a packet of chips (crisps) to illustrate the points.

Armchair Auditor lets you see how your council spends your money. Sometimes you want a high-level view of how much money is being spent by each council service or paid to each supplier. Other times you want to examine the details right down to individual payments. Armchair Auditor lets you do both.

The site provides the best available evidence and practical examples of health professionals successfully sharing and applying knowledge and experience to their daily activities.

Steve Dale is developing the Knowledge Hub for IDeA, as reported here socialreporter.com However it is proving difficult to explain to people that it isn't just a big knowledge warehouse. Steve reflects on how to explain, at the KIMPS09 knowledge management conference.

at the 2nd meeting of the Knowledge Hub advisory group, we asked people to map how they would use the Knowledge Hub (imagining that it's everything they wanted it to be) to satisfy their knowledge and information needs around a popular, complex LAA target. (In one case, NI 111 - first time entrants to the youth justice system and NI 39 hospital admissions due to alcohol related harm).

LGID Official YouTube channel

Open Data Commons is the home of a set of legal 'tools' to help you provide and use open data.

The Prime Minister and CLG Ministers wish to see local authorities publish granular local spending data. The Public Sector Transparency Board has been set up to drive an open data agenda. The Prime Minister has made a specific commitment that new items of local government spending over £500 be published on a council-by-council basis from January 2011. http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/statements-and-articles/2010/05/letter-t... Many local authorities also wish to publish such data. Camden Council asked the Panel for advice on publishing information about payments to suppliers greater than £500 in value.

This is our first attempt at producing a way to navigate around the 3.2m data items released by the UK government as part of Coins. Scroll down the page to choose which chunk of data you'd like to explore - and let us know what you find. Find out what the acronyms mean with our glossary.

Prof Michael Wesch lecture on how narcissim, voyerism and youtubeism is changing our world. Both funny and thought provoking, packed full of examples. This is a good background to the 'knowledge ecology'

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

IDeA homepage

Local Authorities that have open datasets (provided by LB Brent eGovernment Register)

Birmingham CC citizen data mashup site

Electronic post-it noticeboard