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So much public government data
some is easily accessible and yet some
requires some heavy lifting to get
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Difficult to correlate
yes we know,
this isn’t always easy and sometimes
impossible but we have to try.
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So many questions...
How much money are
we spending?
Who is winning
contracts?
Are we competing
contracts?
Are we helping small
businesses?
How are budgets
changing for programs
year over year?
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So lets work to...
collect(or consume)
correlate
and
catalog
into easy to use APIs that
applications can be built on
top of to answer the
questions important to the
people.
6. By exposing the data in a set of reusable resources, you
can let agencies, programs, citizens, and industry build
simple applications that answer the questions
important to them.
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This is a great primer on APIs in the
government - and why it matters.
http://blog.howto.gov/2012/12/04/apis-in-government/
But wait, APIs... why?
7. The Approach
we crawl
and store
we download
and store
pdf/xmlrssapi
we consume
and proxy
we correlate
and catalog
Fed {API}
Catalog
/procurement
/budget
/acquisition
/vendors
you
build
apps
reports
analytics
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