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        "title" :"Exciting Additions to Analytics.usa.gov","summary" : "We’ve expanded analytics.usa.gov to include 15(!) more agency-specific dashboard pages. We now offer agency-specific analytics data pages for a total of 25 major federal agencies, and each one is accessible from the dropdown menu at the top of the site.","date" : "2016-06-17T12:30:45-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden","gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks","eric-mill" : "Eric Mill","colin-craig" : "Colin Craig"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"API Design and Documentation","summary" : "Design At their core, developers want APIs for very straightforward, pragmatic ends. You should always design your APIs and document them with the goal of making it easier for developers to use them. Doing so results in greater adoption and a healthier, more successful API. The least efficient way to support developers would be to","date" : "2013-03-12T12:49:20-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"How to Make APIs—An Overview","summary" : "After choosing a set of information or services to offer via API, some of your next steps are to plan and implement the API. You’ll still need to prepare documentation, tools, and other elements that make a complete package for the API, but at the center is the actual Web service itself. In many situations,","date" : "2013-03-12T12:47:51-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"Resources and Tools for APIs","summary" : "Hosted API Tools Labs.Data.gov is a repository of shared services to prototype and provide developer resources to government agencies. Each tool uses Web services and lightweight, open source code to provide powerful functionality. Agencies are encouraged to improve any project and submit pull requests in order to share the improvements with others. API Standards Template With the open","date" : "2013-03-12T12:41:05-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"How to Get Started with APIs","summary" : "Audit Research existing APIs Regardless of your agency’s level of progress in API production, your first step is to create a developer hub that links to any of your agency’s existing APIs. This can help identify current efforts and connect you with others in your agency already working on APIs. Follow up with a deeper","date" : "2013-03-12T12:28:11-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"API Basics","summary" : "Common Technical Choices Protocol API protocol is the set of rules that govern how an API functions. The protocol outlines the structure and definitions of the API. The two common forms are REST and SOAP. REST is the dominant choice for API protocol because it uses the http protocol that powers the Web. REST supports more","date" : "2013-03-12T12:24:59-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"Benefits of APIs","summary" : "Understanding the benefits of API production allows you to coordinate with system owners and other stakeholders to modernize the agency’s systems and unlock the sizable potential. Here are just some of these opportunities. Efficiency Providing API access allows for content to be created once and automatically published or made available to many channels. Your agency’s","date" : "2013-03-12T12:19:48-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
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        "title" :"Case Study: How DOL Created Software Development Kits (SDKs)","summary" : "What It Is The U.S. Department of Labor sought to go beyond merely making data available to developers and take ease of use of the data to the next level by giving developers tools that would make using DOL’s data easier. The target audience was not just experienced developers, but even those who may be","date" : "2012-11-19T01:16:23-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"michael-pulsifer" : "Michael Pulsifer","gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
              "software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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        "title" :"Case Study: How GSA Launched Social Media Registry","summary" : "In September, the General Services Administration (GSA) launched a registry of all federally-managed social media accounts. We want to explain a little of the history behind the registry and talk about a few things that make it a truly remarkable innovation from GSA. Before I start, I want to emphasize when I say “we” from","date" : "2012-11-19T01:14:12-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jed-sundwall" : "Jed Sundwall","gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
              "application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
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              "software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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        "title" :"Introduction to APIs","summary" : "There’s an easier way to get content and data into the hands of citizens. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are web services that allow people to more easily consume content and data in multiple ways–via mobile devices, mobile apps, innovative mash-ups, and much more. Simply put, “APIs are a better way to get government information","date" : "2012-07-26T09:56:58-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
          
              "application-programming-interface" : "Application programming interface",
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