Kin Lane

API Evangelist

Civic APIs Session

@APIStrat Chicago

September 2014

25 Years Database Engineer
15 Years Web Applications
8 Years Cloud Computing
4 Years Studying APIs

www.apievangelist.com

Target

Individuals
Startups
SMB
SME
Enterprise
Government
Institutions

Civic Session

Cities

Chicago, IL

80% Of The Top 50 Cities In US

Have An Active Open Data Effort

Important To Look Beyond Your City

Why Are Cities Doing It?

Transparency
Cost Savings
Better Serve
FOIA
Policy

Who Is Doing It In Other Cities?

Government
NGOs
Public
Corporate
Research

What Are Some Of The Obstacles?

Access to Data
Quality of Data
APIs for Data
Apps Built On Data

Building Blocks

Government

Chief Data Officer (CDO)

Non-Governmental Organization

Universities

Evangelists

Hackathons

Meetups

Datasets / API Catalog

Github

Blogs

Calendar

Ideas

Showcase Apps

Submit Data

Civic Focused Cloud Services

Socrata

Junar.com

Open Apps & Tools

Open511

Open311

API Umbrella

CKAN

Socrata Open Data Developer Portal

Socrata Open Data API

Organizations

Code for America

Sunlight Foundation

Open Knowledge

Common Blueprints

Open511

Open311

Hackathon In A Box

Project Open Data

The Open Data Handbook

Research

Open Data 500

US City Open Data Census

Opportunities

Websites

Mobile

Data Work

Scraping

API Design

API Deployment

API Management

API Integration

Reciprocity

Aggregation

Maybe Not The Next Big Startup

Make A Decent Living

Resulting In Important Work

Civic Data

APIs

Where Are You Going To Get Data?

Scraping

Government Open Data & APIs

Start From Scratch

Corporate Stores

Where You Going To Put Data?

RDS (SQL)

DynamoDB (NoSQL)

S3 (Files)

EC2 (Compute)

S3 (Storage)

Github

API Design

API Design (JSON)

API Design (YAML)

API Frameworks

StrongLoop (Deployment)

API Spark (Deployment)

REST

Cloud Formation (Orchestration)

Containers (Deployment)

Route 53 (DNS)

Services (Management)

API Infrastructure (Management)

Keys (Management)

Analytics (Management)

Service Composition (Management)

Monetization (Management)

Github

Developer Portals (Github)

Interactive API Documentation (Github)

API Definitions (Github)

Code Samples (Github)

Software Development Kits (Github)

API Discovery

ProgrammableWeb (Discovery)

Mashape (Discovery)

APIs.json (Discovery)

APIs.io (Discovery)

Modular Resources

Virtual Stacks

Resources/

Experiences/

Research & Development

Business Development

External

Internal

Websites

Mobile

Single Page Apps

Spreadsheets

Internet of Things

Kin Lane

API Evangelist

Target

Civic Session

Cities

Chicago, IL

80% Of The Top 50 Cities In US

Have An Active Open Data Effort

Important To Look Beyond Your City

Why Are Cities Doing It?

Who Is Doing It In Other Cities?

What Are Some Of The Obstacles?

Building Blocks

Government

Chief Data Officer (CDO)

Non-Governmental Organization

Universities

Evangelists

Hackathons

Meetups

Datasets / API Catalog

Github

Blogs

Calendar

Ideas

Showcase Apps

Submit Data

Civic Focused Cloud Services

Socrata

Junar.com

Open Apps & Tools

Open511

Open311

API Umbrella

CKAN

Socrata Open Data Developer Portal

Socrata Open Data API

Organizations

Code for America

Sunlight Foundation

Open Knowledge

Common Blueprints

Open511

Open311

Hackathon In A Box

Project Open Data

The Open Data Handbook

Research

Open Data 500

US City Open Data Census

Opportunities

Websites

Mobile

Data Work

Scraping

API Design

API Deployment

API Management

API Integration

Reciprocity

Aggregation

Maybe Not The Next Big Startup

Make A Decent Living

Resulting In Important Work

Github

The End

By Kin Lane (@kinlane)