ApiWorkshopForDigitalHumanities2009

Workshop on Application Programming Interfaces for the Digital Humanities | NiCHE

• a central goal of the workshop is to "develop a strategy for providing APIs that mesh seamlessly with one another, expose data that has remained inaccessible until now, and provide a platform for a new generation of online research.

• "The recommendations of the group will be published in the form of a white paper with an open content license; all code that results will be released as open source."

My book

My book blog: http://blog.mashupguide.net/ -- you'll find the complete text for my book, licensed under a CC license: http://blog.mashupguide.net/toc/

I will be converting my book to HTML soon -- as well as updating it. In the meantime, I commend to you the Introduction, Chapter 1 Learning from Specific Mashups, Chapter 12 Making Your Web Site Mashable.

Basic terms

• APIs are "application programming interfaces"

• A mashup, in the words of the Wikipedia, is a web site or web application “that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.”

Possible References for my talk

This talk will be similar to one I gave at the Library of Congress: Web 2.0 Mashups: Making the Web Your Own Webcast (Library of Congress).

Here are some possible references for my talk:

• HousingMaps

• Jon Udell: The LibraryLookup Project

• Flickr Services

• @troynt's Twitter Script for Greasemonkey:

• Flickr Sudoku

• fd's Flickr Toys: Do fun stuff with your photos

• ProgrammableWeb lists APIs and mashups that use these APIs.

• How to Manage Volunteer Software Developers, Managing Technology Article - Inc. Article -- a great article on Etsy, Mashery, and the steps that encouraged Etsy to build an API

• Online activism, lurking, mashups, and APIs (Episode 76 – May 6 & 9, 2009 | Spark | CBC Radio)

• Data Unbound - Data Architect, Consultant, Trainer, and Author Raymond Yee on data and software in research and education » Web Services for Recovery.gov

Google map exercise

If you are looking to work through a Google map API exercise, look at Mashups with the Google Maps API.

* To geocode the address of the hotel: Map of 6750 Mississauga Rd Mississauga ON : geocoder.ca (HTML).

Sample API calls

Library of Congress SRU

MODS record for Milosz's Collected Poems (See SRU is Simple - SRU: Search/Retrieval via URL, Standards, Library of Congress and ModsFromLibraryOfCongressQuery)

Contact Info

Raymond Yee, President, Data Unbound LLC -- an API consulting, training, and strategy firm (yee@berkeley.edu / raymondyee@dataunbound.com)

(Visiting Scholar and lecturer, UC Berkeley)

(phone: 510.984.2330)

(twitter: @rdhyee)

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