sensemaking

With formal negotiations on the new international climate change treaty due to open in three weeks time, Independent readers are starting to work with the Debategraph community to develop a comprehensive map of the issues around climate change that are confronting the negotiators.

delving into the deep structure of problems by using an issue based mapping method

Explore Wikipedia! See related articles at a glance, search Wikipedia instantly from anywhere, and extend the Awesomebar. Great for Wikipedia power users and frequent searchers.

A semantic web experiment with a focus on Ontology Visualisation and Querying.

KnowledgeForge is a digital open knowledge community based around this site. It is built on the KForge system and aims to provide you with the facilities and tools to create everything from a new textbook to maps. The only requirement to host a project on this site is that it be open.

, the government should be a rule-setting referee to encourage the development of an open software platform on which innovators could write electronic health record applications.

We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust, self-organising and scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems.

Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

Tagalus lets users define tags so that others can understand what they're talking about. Other users can vote on definitions and decide which best describes the given tag.

Federating Distributed Social Data to Build an Interlinked Online Information Society

What is iGlue? The right meaning to the right word. iGlue is an online content management application that reorganizes data fragmented on the net. It arranges pictures, videos, people, notions and geographical locations into a unified and manageable structure. Through this collaboratively edited database iGlue shows the content network of any webpage.

Full online book. Reader feedback forms.

Bossa is an open-source software framework for distributed thinking - the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that use human cognition, knowledge, or intelligence.

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

One of the most surprising discoveries of modern physics is that objects aren't as separate as they may seem. When you drill down into the core of even the most solid-looking material, separateness dissolves. All that remains, like the smile of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, are relationships extending curiously throughout space and time.

What is it? software as a new scientific method of analysis a novel kind of expert system for decision support a software-based approach to measuring, taking input from sensors and imaging technologies.

This is a list of repositories and databases for open data.

zembly is a new kind of application development environment that lends the power of the crowd to you, so you can do more, faster. It's kind of like a wiki, but for applications.

Glasshouse by Green Phosphor is a gateway which can take a database query or a spreadsheet and place a 3D representation of it into a virtual world. Users can see data, and drill into it; re-sort it; explore it interactively - all from within a virtual world. Glasshouse produces graphs which are avatars of the data itself.