WebAPI Discovery Community Group Proposed

The WebAPI Discovery Community Group has been proposed:

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A group to develop a mechanism for the automatic discovery of WebAPIs,
by
extending the schema.org vocabulary.


Increasingly, large online platforms and services provide one or more
Web
APIs for third-party developers. Moreover, many companies build WebAPIs
as
their primary product (Email API, SMS API, etc.). This has resulted in
an
explosion of the number of WebAPIs in recent years. Developers spend a
significant amount of time searching for suitable WebAPIs to meet their
needs.


Our intention is to work closely with Schema.org to define a
WebAPI-specific extension and promote usage of this extension among API
owners. In the long run, our aim is to contribute this extension into
the
core Schema.org vocabulary.


To achieve these goals we are seeking feedback and collaboration from
API
owners, DX specialists, API description language experts and maintainers
of
various API catalogs.


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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#web-api-discovery

Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and
people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
be listed as "proposed"; it will appear in the list of current groups:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/

In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/accounts/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Friday, 9 December 2016 15:16:59 UTC