The aim of this project is to design a general data model and application programming interface that can be used to build a family of 'Information Task' applications, which are applications that allow to submit, organize, browse, and search items of information.

Examples of such applications include: private and community blogs, portals, resource pages, directories, social tagging systems, bug trackers, message boards, help systems, wikis, forums, and many others. In the future, it seems possible that many systems will be built that draw upon elements that underlie these and similar applications. This project seeks to investigate the technical issues that underpin such a possibility.