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This project provides JISC and the sector with information and advice on the factors that encourage use of machine interfaces, based on existing practice.

Executive Summary

See the project blogThis report provides a number of good practice techniques for provision of and consuming application programming interfaces (APIs). The content of this report is based primarily on feedback provided from the developer community via two consultation mechanisms: an online survey of and interviews with the HE developer community.

It is anticipated that the good practice elements of this work will be shared with the HE developer community by chunking into a blog, either the writetoreply.org blog or the Good APIs blog Each section will be one post, and each post is open to comments from the public. This approach will probably take place over a specified timescale.

Intended target audience

This report is intended for use by Higher Education development community. It will also have some relevance for managers by providing them with a better understanding of the good practice use of APIs in the Higher Education Sector.

Licence

This report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence

Quotations used in the report

The quotations given in block quote style in this report are from the Good APIs survey. When conducting the survey it was indicated that all information would be annonymised and so all quotations are not attributed.

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