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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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