Open Data and APIs

Where do Open Data and APIs meet?

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1. Open Data and APIs Pieter Colpaert
2. Making Open Data used and useful, worldwide, since 2004
3. and many more
4. Open Definition.org A dataset is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.
5. Publicdata.eu
6. 5 things an Open Data Portal does ★ A dataset registry ★★ A meta-data provider ★★★ A co-creation platform ★★★★ A data publishing platform ★★★★★ A common data hub http://pieter.pm/5stardataportals/
7. Confusing World of APIs ? World of Open Data
8. You don’t need an API to publish data APIs enable services on top of open data...
9. You use APIs to… gather feedback This toilet needs cleaning Openly licensed data dump at: http://wiki. openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
10. You use APIs to… use data in apps But… are hypermedia interfaces APIs? REST API docs at: http://community.openspending.org/help/api/rest/ Raw data at: https://openspending.org/datasets
11. You use APIs to… use data in apps But… are hypermedia interfaces APIs? See a list of government services in your browser GET http://{yourcity}/services Accept: “text/html” Get a JSON feed in your apps GET http://{yourcity}/services Accept: “application/json” Wouldn’t this be great?
12. First steps… Check out http://demo.TheDataTank.com CSV XML SHP SPARQL XLS ... http://... interface
13. You use APIs to… provide updates https://data.irail.be/NMBS/Liveboard/ Ghent%20Sint%20Pieters/ 2014/03/27/14/20 .json Raw data at: http://datahub. io/dataset/timetables-for-the-belgian- railway-company Sliding windows of data
14. You use APIs to… provide services Full text search, autocompletion API, querying interfaces (public SQL endpoints?)...
15. Open Data and APIs, where’s the money? Service Level Agreements for data
16. Thank you Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpaert@okfn.org @pietercolpaert