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Fed {API} Overview

Fed {API} Overview

John OBrien III

May 18, 2013
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  1. { } 540.consulting Fed {API} Making open government data easily

    accessible and reusable John O’Brien III - @jobrieniii
  2. { } 540.consulting So much public government data some is

    easily accessible and yet some requires some heavy lifting to get Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  3. { } 540.consulting Difficult to correlate yes we know, this

    isn’t always easy and sometimes impossible but we have to try. Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  4. { } 540.consulting So many questions... How much money are

    we spending? Who is winning contracts? Are we competing contracts? Are we helping small businesses? How are budgets changing for programs year over year? Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  5. { } 540.consulting So lets work to... collect (or consume)

    correlate and catalog into easy to use APIs that applications can be built on top of to answer the questions important to the people. Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  6. By exposing the data in a set of reusable resources,

    you can let agencies, programs, citizens, and industry build simple applications that answer the questions important to them. { } 540.consulting This is a great primer on APIs in the government - and why it matters. http://blog.howto.gov/2012/12/04/apis-in-government/ But wait, APIs... why? Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  7. The Approach we crawl and store we download and store

    pdf/xml rss api we consume and proxy we correlate and catalog Fed {API} Catalog /procurement /budget /acquisition /vendors you build apps reports analytics 1 2 3 4 5 { } 540.consulting Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  8. The backend Fed {API} Catalog http:// api.fedapi.com http:// graph.fedpi.com stores

    the “docs” coming soon stores the relationships between “docs & subdocs” creating the graph powers the full text search capability across graph { } 540.consulting Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii
  9. { } 540.consulting Questions? If you want more information, contact

    us at [email protected] to tell us what data is important to you. The demo Fed API Overview - @jobrieniii