What makes a ‘good’ API?
There are more and more opportunities for universities to take advantage of services offered by third parties on the web. It isn’t hard to see where exploiting Facebook or Twitter, or more ‘academic’ services such as SherpaRoMEO, can add value to a university’s ICT offer to its staff and students. Obviously there are issues, some legal (see Web2Rights toolkit) and some technical. UKOLN are just kicking off a small piece of work to see what’s going on in the sector in the UK, and identify good practice both in terms of using third party APIs, and in the APIs themselves.
October 10, 2008 | Filed Under interoperability, libraries, resource discovery, metadata, web 2.0 | Author Neil Jacobs
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