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JISC Sponsored APIs I Would Play With
Tony HirstDepartment of Communcation and SystemsThe Open University
SOAP?
Probably not...
(Too much of the wrong sort of clutter...)
Make life easy...
Hackable URLs
RESTful URLs
RSS & JSON
OpenSearch search
Clear licensing policy
(give me the option to filter content by license type)
i.e. lubricate the rights process
codes
(suggesting that reuse is okay...)
Do you even NEED an API if you publish web content considerately?
for tabular data...
for lists...
everything...
Microformats...
Why?
Because then I can get what I need anyway...
URI + XPATH =
a query on the data web
So just play nice...
What sorts of services would I like to play with?
Academics' Names
Course details
[ XCRI ]
Course syllabus / curriculum
(come on, UCAS, ffs...)
Course Reading Lists
[ Talis' Project Zephyr? ]
Student Records
[ HEAR ]
Research Publications
[ Eprints ]
Just FEED ME...
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