API Strategy & Practice Government Workshop

This is a repository for the government workshop at API Strategy & Practice on October 23rd, 2013.

Mandate

• Executive Order
• White House Open Data Policy

Levels of Government

• Federal Government
  • Data.gov
  • Developer Hubs
  • Project Open Data
• State Government
  • Washington
  • Illinois
  • Oregon
  • Oklahoma
  • Colorado
• City Government
  • New York City
  • San Francisco
  • Seattle
  • Chicago
  • Philadelphia
  • Boston
  • Saint Louis
  • New Orleans
  • Palo Alto
  • Sacramento
  • San Jose

Platforms

• CKAN
• DKAN
• Socrata
• Junar
• Github
• Github Pages
• Github Gists
• Simple API
• oAuth.io
• Delray.io

Tools

• Database to API
• CSV to API
• CSV Converter
• Email XSLX to CSV Converter
• Dev Hub
• Government Services
• PHP Excel
• Tabletop
• Jekyll
• JSON Editor
• Apache Solr
• Scraper Wiki
• Import.io
• Prose IO
• D3JS

Approaches

• MySQL to API
• JSON to API
• Github JSON to API
• Public Google Spreadsheet to API
• Jekyll to JSON
• Cache
• Augment

Resources

• Sunlight Foundation
• Department of Better Technology
• Development Seed
• Code for America

Groups

• Open Data on Stack Exchange
• US Government APIs Google Group