3.4: APIs
Provide application programming interfaces Other Information:
There are already cases in which the government is providing access to information through APIs. In most of the cases, this
means that the consumer has access to the data only in the way the producer thinks it should be accessed, e.g. through certain
methods, but the consumer does not have access to the raw data or a holistic view of it. APIs are usually provided in Javascript
or similar languages to integrate in Web pages and applications and in some cases provide access to an XML view of some parts
or the whole dataset. Some examples are the ones offered by the UK Government for the Show Us a Better Way [UK-SHOWUS] competition,
from health statistics and geospatial information to postal codes, but also those from the third sector, such as the ones
provided by the Sunlight Foundation [US-SUNAPI], that offer from congress records and events to census data.
Indicator(s):
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