Richard Light wrote:
> "Another API" is indeed good news when there is only a handful of
them.
> Anything from a museum context that delivers XML cheers me up, as you
> know ;-)
>
> However, "[yet] another API with its own home-grown query syntax and
> unique results format" will start to be wearisome news to integrators,
> when there are hundreds of APIs out there, and more arriving every
week.
>
> Don't we need a standard for what a museum API looks like, and what it
> delivers? Even better, shouldn't we stop thinking that we need to
> invent everything we use, and just adopt something like the Linked
Data
> paradigm?
Probably!
But I can already hear the cries of "help! we're being attacked by a big
national project-like beast".
That said, the Science Museum is looking at releasing an API soon -
project-specific to start with, but with the intention of using that as
an iterative testing and learning process, and I'd be happy to talk to
other museums about what they're doing to try and come up with something
with at least some core similarities in the schema and functionality.
Anyone up for it?
cheers, Mia
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