Monday 23 March 2009

The great API challenge in action

Thanks to a bit of creative re-purposing, museum-api.pbwiki.com is open for sharing, discussing, arguing over and hopefully coming to some common agreements on APIs and data schemas for museum collections.

What you can do:
  • Upload or copy and paste some examples from your collections data schemas - whether that's nicely marked up xml, a table structure from the databases that feed your website, even plain old HTML from an online page.

  • Link to your API, tell us what's worked, which ideas we should pinch

  • List the functionality of your API (through documentation, examples, whatever)

  • Talk about how you decided how to implement your API

  • Start a discusion with your questions, unresolved issues

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