Oliver Drotbohm 2/21/2013

Websites VS. APIs

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The article critiques the 2013 launch of the German government's open data portal (govdata.de), focusing on its API's lack of hypermedia elements. It discusses a Twitter debate where a project member suggested using the website for hypermedia and the API for programming. The author argues this is a fundamental misunderstanding, asserting that web APIs should embrace core web principles like hypermedia, and explores the conceptual overlap between websites and APIs in RESTful design.

Websites VS. APIs

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