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Security analysts disclosed severe API security flaws impacting numerous car makers, enabling them to access vehicle owner information, take over accounts, access internal systems, modify records, and track their position.
Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.
People may need to get permission before embedding someone else's Instagram photo.
A couple of weeks ago, my library upped our Libguides instance to Libguides CMS, which means that a few weeks ago I came to be in charge of a system that has APIs for the first time in my life. We …
Kim Milai, a retired school teacher, was searching on ancestry.com for information about her great grandfather, Amohamed Milai, when her browser turned up something she had not expected: a page from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America site displaying a scan of the Harrisburg Telegraph newspaper from March 13, 1919. On that page was a story […]
This post is based on a talk I gave at SWIB15 on November 24 titled “LOD for applications: using the Lobid API”. I recently stumbled upon a poster by the American Library Association fr…
Why checking out ebooks thru libraries SUCKS.
A paper by David Weinberger, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center, explores the successes, challenges and opportunities for news organizations using APIs. An API (application programming interface) enables websites and applications to talk to each other and efficiently share data and functionality across sites and platforms. In 2008 The … The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant Read More »
The BBC Things website is designed to be used by anyone who works with our data at a technical or editorial level. From an editorial perspective, the website makes it easy for content editors, producers and creators to discover concepts that exist in our platform.
It surprises me that the Semantic Technology industry still talks with great frequency about the ‘SPARQL Endpoint’ (it’s come up a few times already at SemTech 2013). At best, a S…
Website of librarian, writer, speaker, consultant and LIS educator, Meredith Gorran Farkas. Includes the popular Information Wants to be Free blog.
Good explanation of "API" and "stack."
Includes a bit on what happened when they released a dirty dataset with several database no-nos (e.g. non-unique IDs).
Pretty clear explanation of how to use one particular REST (URL-based) API.
Welcome to the DPLA API Codex! This is where you can find authoritative documentation for the DPLA API and resources you can use to make the most of it. We’re happy to have you. (Wondering why we built an API in the first place? Check out our philosophy.) What now? If you’ve never played (or …
Editor's note: Sacha Labourey is CEO and Steven G. Harris is senior vice president of products for CloudBees. APIs exist for a reason: They act as the communication channel, the lingua franca, the boundary, between the provider of the implementation and users of that implementation -- developers. Will our economy thrive and be more competitive because companies can easily switch from one service provider to the other by leveraging identical APIs?
A federal judge has ruled that Google's Android operating system infringes Oracle's copyrights. The ruling is bad news for the software industry.