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Technological Innovation in a World of Web APIs

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Technological Innovation in a World of Web APIs

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  1. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/cetis-2008/http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/cetis-2008/ Technological Innovation in a World of Web APIs Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Resources bookmarked using ‘cetis-2008-apis' tag UKOLN is supported by: by-nc-sa This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)

  2. About The Facilitators Introduction • Brian Kelly: • UK Web Focus: a national advisory post • Long-standing Web evangelist (since Jan 1993) • Based at UKOLN, University of Bath, with remit to advise HE/FE and cultural heritage sectors • Interests include Web 2.0, standards, accessibility and deployment strategies • Marieke Guy: • Research officer at UKOLN • Recently working on JISC PoWR (Preservation of Web Resource) • Currently involved in JISC report on “What Makes a Good API?”

  3. About This Session Introduction • Title: • Technological Innovation in a World of Web APIs • Structure: • An ‘unconference’ • Approach: • Some planned sessions; but scope for flexibility • Emphasis on your contributions • Aims: • Explore implications of a development environment based on Web APIs • Discuss opportunities and challenges • Seek to identify best practices and recommendations

  4. About You (1) Introduction • How many of you are: • Software developers • Develop APIs for use by others • Exploit APIs ‘in the cloud’ • JISC employees • Work for a JISC Service • Work on a JISC-funded project • E-learning technologist • Manager / policy maker • Learner • User • Other • NOTE: You may have multiple roles!

  5. About You (2) Introduction • In small groups state: • Your name and institution • What you do • What you feel you can contribute to the session • What you hope to gain from this session

  6. The Proposed Structure

  7. Questions • Any questions or comments?

  8. What Are We Talking About? Definitions • We need to define what we are talking about, in order to avoid misunderstandings: • Web API: Wikipedia • Cloud computing: Wikipedia • Software as a Service (SaaS): Wikipedia • Platform as a Service (PaaS): Wikipedia • Data as a Service (DaaS): Data Management • Data Cloud: Semantic Web blog, Paul Miller • … • Suggestions for definitions invited OTOH it may be better to avoid a rigourous definition and leave society to arrive at an understanding of the term (cf ‘Web 2.0’)

  9. What’s Happening Today? Examples • Examples of use of Web APIs invited

  10. What Is It Of Interest? • Why: • Is this session so popular? • Why are ‘Web APIs’ so exciting? Why The Interest?

  11. What Next? What Next? • Thoughts for later: • Web APIs are of interest? • We’ve seen examples of their use • But: • What are the barriers? • What are the best practices? • How should we be exploiting Web APIs, the cloud, … in our institutions? • What should JISC be doing?

  12. Questions • Any questions or comments?

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