Gov APIs: The Notorious Case of Official Statistics

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Gov APIs
The Notorious Case
of Official Statistics
APIdays Mediterranea
May 29 & 30, 2014
Barcelona
Xavier Badosa
(@badosa)

2009

“APIs
2013
for WhiteHouse.gov?”

“What in the heck
2013
does that mean?”

> 500
2014

Gov APIs
Society as a
distributed system
enabled
by government

Gov APIs
!
Transform
government
into a platform

·∙
is a very long word
Gov ern ment·∙

Service provider

Teller Window Interface

Teller Window Interface

Digital Window Interface

API

Better user interfaces
Integration into external processes
API

API
Write

API
Write
Not many

API
Read

Service provider
(data as a by-product)

Service provider
(data as a by-product)
open data ≠ gov as a platform

Service provider
(data as a by-product)
open data ≠ gov as a platform
open services

Service provider
(data as a by-product)
Data provider

Service provider
(data as a by-product)
Data provider
open data = gov as a platform

Book Interface

We
put
data
in
cells

data has no
intrinsic value
3.2

public transit system

data
as an
infrastructure

An infrastructure
is useless if nothing is built on top of it

Re-use
as a matter
of survival

To use again
in a new way
elsewhere

Mobility

Mobility
widget

Mobility
download

Mobility
API

The Richness of Language
verb object+
download
API
Get
Get…
all the data
the data I want

website
download
API
The Software Staircase
access
processing

maximum
data exposure
and reach
API
FOUR-‐LETTER
WORDS
AHEAD
FOUR-‐LETTER
WORDS
AHEAD

maximum
data exposure
and reach
FREE
EASY
OPEN
API

maximum
data exposure
and reach
as in
free beer
FREE

maximum
data exposure
and reach
OPEN
as in
open air

Good for consumers
Good for the government
(savings, richer analytics)

Federated identity verification
of developers?

maximum
data exposure
and reach
EASY
as in
dead easy
1+1

The Fifteen Minute Rule
A person of reasonable
ability should be able to
get from zero to ‘Hello World’
in fifteen minutes...

maximum
data exposure
and reach
EASY
as in
dead easy
Apps are
already hard
Getting
the data
should be
dead simple

maximum
data exposure
and reach
EASY
as in
dead easy
Docless APIs
Standard
endpoints,
responses,
errors

[
[ "P0010001", "NAME", "state" ],
[ "710231", "Alaska", "02" ],
...

{
...,
"Results": [{
"series": [{
"seriesID": "LAUCN040010000000005",...

{
"BEAAPI": {
"Request": {...},
"Results": {
"Statistic": "Per...

{
"JSONDataResult": [
{
"AgencyName": "MCC",
"Amount": "-...

{
"columns": [
{ "code":"region", "text": "Region" },
{ "code":"ageG5", "text":"Age", "c...

[
{...},
[
{
"indicator": {
"id": "NY.GDP.MK...

SDMX,
RDF,
LGDx

SDMX

$[ { "area_name": "Panama", "measurement": "tonnes", "value": 1152.878...$

A Data-to-Provider(s)
Translation Protocol?

Service provider
Data provider
Write APIs
Common APIs

JSON-‐stat.org

{
"dataset": {
"status": {...},
"dimension": {...},
"label": "Value ...

Thank you !
Gov APIs
The Notorious Case
of Official Statistics
Xavier Badosa
(@badosa)

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