APIs in Government

by Gray Brooks @ Apistrat NYC (Feb. 2013)

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1. APIs in Government
2. APIs in Government Where we've come from and where we're going...
3. Why? “The rich wealth of information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset with tremendous potential value to the public, entrepreneurs, and to our own government programs.” *Digital Government Strategy
4. Why? "...all things evolve to abstraction over time, becoming uninteresting commodities." *Cringely.com
5. Crawl...
7. Crawl... Walk...
8. Developer.Data.gov
9. Agency.gov/developer •  Department of Agriculture •  Department of Education •  Department of Energy •  Department of Labor •  Census Bureau •  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services •  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau •  Consumer Product Safety Commission •  Energy Information Administration •  Environmental Protection Agency •  Federal Aviation Administration •  Federal Communications Commission •  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration •  Federal Register •  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis •  General Services Administration •  Millenium Challenge Corporation •  National Aeronautics & Space Administration •  National Archives & Records Administration •  National Climate Data Center •  National Institute on Drug Abuse •  National Library of Medicine •  National Renewable Energy Laboratory •  National Weather Service •  Small Business Administration •  Social Security Administration •  Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration •  U.S. Geological Survey •  White House •  BusinessUSA •  Commerce - Automated Export System •  Data.gov •  DEA - E-Commerce Program •  EnergyStar.gov •  FOIA.gov •  HealthData.gov •  HealthFinder.gov •  HHS - Health Indicator Warehouse •  HHS - Medicare •  Integrated Taxonomic Information System •  ITDashboard.gov •  National Broadband Map •  National Information Exchange Model •  National Resource Directory •  Performance.gov Permits •  Small Business Innovation Research •  USA.gov •  USASpending.gov •  U.S. Courts - PACER
10. Loose APIs •  WH Policy Snapshots JSON Feed •  Animal Identification Management System •  National Agriculture Imagery Program Status Web Service •  National Water and Climate Center AWDB database •  Soil Data Mart •  Recreation Information Database •  Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System •  Trademark Status & Document Retrieval •  IUID Registry API •  Proteus API •  ADL 3d repository •  OMNI Data •  National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's NEWT •  Buildings API •  Home Energy Saver •  Colt APIGreen Energy Data •  Eldercare.gov
11. Crawl... Walk... Run.
12. Doing it right…
13. Doing it right…
18. Developer.DOL.gov
19. Broadbandmap.gov
20. For the first time ever – what is available…
21. HowTo.gov/API
22. API.Data.gov
23. We Need You! • GitHub.com/GSA • Howto.gov/API • Developer.Data.gov • Registry.USA.gov • WhiteHouse.gov/innovationfellows • RFPez.SBA.gov Gray.Brooks@GSA.gov