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 (JSON)

API Design (YAML)

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/
to
Experiences/

Research & Development

Business Development

External

Internal

Websites

Mobile

Single Page Apps

Spreadsheets

Internet of Things
The End
By Kin Lane (@kinlane)
