Community API’s

Lex Slaghuis, CEO at Open State Foundation
Session: Civic APIs
API Strategy & Practice Conference, Amsterdam 2014

Transcript

1. Community API’s By @ajslaghu
2. • Merger of the New Voting Foundation (Groningen - 2006) • Studentsociety aimed towards digital political transparancy • And Hack the Government (Amsterdam - 2008) • Hackdeoverheid.nl is a Hackers community focussed on open data “Not-for-profit for the EU aiming to improve digital transparancy and reap benefits from this transparancy”
3. Thematic Networks Hackathons Community API’s Community Platforms Community Tools Competitions
4. Community • Events with up to 200 visitors • Domainspecific (education, culture) networks events • Blogs from community experts • Twitter (2k +), Mailinglists (1k +), Facebooks 500+. ±Community: Share, Gather, Ask, Connect, Help, Lobby
5. What’s Next?
6. Open State Strategy (2011- now) Communitybased • Lobby for open data, from local- up to EU level • Share and gather - local and global -expertise on open data and technology • Incentivizing programmes with global opportunities for our community • Open Data Infrastructure??
7. Communitybased infrastructure – it’s already happening enkvk.nl openov.nl openstreetmap.org
8. House of Parlement data Data on votes, decisions, documents and meetings “We want ALL the data” • Textmining • Semweb • AI-stuff
9. House of Parlement data Open Source + Open Data CSV’s
10. House of Parlement data Open Source + Open Data CSV’s
11. Education Data on inspections, ratings, results, finances “We want ALL the data from 3 sources out of 100’s datafiles centralized”
12. Education OS + OD + JSON-API
13. Spending OS + OD + JSON-API Data on budgets and spending from governments “We want data from ALL of them in a uniform”
14. Spending OS + OD + JSON-API
15. Culture 1st of July2014: OS + OD + JSON-API + DOCKER.IO CC0 Data and open content (cc0 & ccby/sa) “We want re-useable content on our laptop for image processing etc.”
16. Wrap up • “We want your API on our laptop” • So we can develop faster • Customize • Are independent • Keep our dataquestions and ideas private • Our findings: They : • May use your API for production • May share code improvements and add ons • Will Help you find and add new datasets • Will be part of your community and share valuable knowledge
17. Open State Foundation Tolhuisweg 2 1031 CL Amsterdam Tel: 020-308-0567 contact@openstate.eu - @OpenStateEU Lex Slaghuis (@ajslaghu)