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an api for all

Posted Fri, 11/06/2009 - 10:13 by Richard Adler

A cry from the wilderness (or from Twitter anyway):

"either there is no API or there is one API for everything. different APIs = fail. also, there is no metadata, it's all data. #apiworkshop"

[apiworkshop = http://niche-canada.org/node/8024 = "On 16-17 October, the NiCHE Digital Infrastructure will be hosting a SSHRC-funded workshop on Application Programming Interfaces for the Digital Humanities." ]

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