Free Data Debate over APIs and Open Government

A colleague just sent this to me: 
techpresident.com/news/24829/free-data-debate-over-apis-and-open-government 



Best Regards,

Steve

Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again"



From:
<Manuel.CARRASCO-BENITEZ@ec.europa.eu>
To:
Steven Adler/Somers/IBM@IBMUS, <Deirdre.Lee@deri.org>
Cc:
<mail@makxdekkers.com>, <newton@nic.br>, <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org>
Date:
03/18/2014 08:20 AM
Subject:
RE: APIs to work with data on the web



+1
 
-        Resources should be addressable with a URI
-        One should aim a common interface for humans and machine
 
http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Data_on_the_Web_URI_Best_Practices

 
Regards
Tomas
 
From: Steven Adler [mailto:adler1@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 4:34 PM
To: Lee, Deirdre
Cc: Makx Dekkers; Newton Calegari; public-dwbp-wg@w3.org
Subject: RE: APIs to work with data on the web
 
Excellent use case which begins to explore and spell out the advantages 
and trade-offs of using API's to access Open Data.  I would like to 
explore this topic in greater detail.  My own personal preference is data 
access by HTTP and URI, because it provides a common interface for humans 
and machines.  But are there performance implications? 


Best Regards,

Steve

Motto: "Do First, Think, Do it Again" 


From: 
"Lee, Deirdre" <Deirdre.Lee@deri.org> 
To: 
Newton Calegari <newton@nic.br>, Makx Dekkers <mail@makxdekkers.com> 
Cc: 
"public-dwbp-wg@w3.org" <public-dwbp-wg@w3.org> 
Date: 
03/17/2014 11:19 AM 
Subject: 
RE: APIs to work with data on the web
 




Hi all, 
  
Very interesting article indeed and related to discussions we’re currently 
having with developers as part of Open Data Ireland on how best to 
publish/use machine-readable data. 
  
I’ve added a use-case on it https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Use_Cases 
Please feel free to add points or pick up on nuances of the conversation 
that I missed. Perhaps we could break this into multiple use-cases to look 
at each of the aspects in more detail? 
  
Cheers, 
Deirdre 
  
  
From: Newton Calegari [mailto:newton@nic.br] 
Sent: 17 March 2014 13:19
To: Makx Dekkers
Cc: public-dwbp-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: APIs to work with data on the web 
 
Hi Laufer, I didn't know the Socrata. 
Thanks for share the link, Makx. Very interesting text and point of view 
about APIs. 
 
BR, 
 
Newton 
 
Em 14/03/2014, à(s) 15:58, Makx Dekkers <mail@makxdekkers.com> escreveu: 


For a different perspective on APIs, see this: 
http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/ 
  
Makx. 
  
From: Newton Calegari [mailto:newton@nic.br] 
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:03 PM
To: public-dwbp-wg@w3.org
Subject: APIs to work with data on the web 
 
Hi all, 
 
          Last week, Yaso and I were talking about APIs and how they are 
important in all aspects of data on the web. APIs are one of the simplest 
ways to access and to distribute data across the web, and we think that is 
an important subject to be discussed on the WG. 
          To talk about APIs, we obviously need to discuss about URI and 
descriptors. Carrasco written the first document [1] about it, besides 
there are a few messages discussing it. 
          Moreover, I want to share some links I consider relevant and 
useful to discuss about this topic. 
          Joshua Bloch, a software engineer and former Googler, published 
an article on InfoQ [2] site and made a presentation called “How to Design 
a Good API & Why it Matters” [3] (other Jushua's presentation about the 
same subject, but the video is hosted on YouTube [4]). These links are 
very interesting and I recommend to all of you, even who is already expert 
in API design. 
 
[1] Data on the Web URI Best Practices: 
http://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/wiki/Data_on_the_Web_URI_Best_Practices 
[2] Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design: 
http://www.infoq.com/articles/API-Design-Joshua-Bloch?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer36801&utm_medium=twitter#.UvbdCPy0BT0.delicious 

[3] How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters: 
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design 
[4] How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters (YouTube version): 
https://www.youtube..com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw 
 
Best Regards, 
Newton