Ben Balter • 6/2/2012

Publishing Government Data That Developers Will Actually Use

This article discusses best practices for government agencies to publish public data in a way that is genuinely useful for developers. It covers the importance of providing clean, normalized data, building internal applications using public APIs ('eating your own dog food'), offering real-time data access as a service, and designing APIs to return discrete, specific data points to lower the barrier for external development and foster a vibrant ecosystem.

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#api design #Open Data #Government Data