Introduction by Porism Limited to the API on structure public data for the Spring Hackathon - London 27 and 28 April 2013.

1. Spring Hackathon
Building apps for local
communities
Google campus – 27/8 April 2013

2. RESTful API
Drives high profile tools aimed at councils.

3. What the API does
Select:
• Areas (countries, regions, council areas,
wards, MLOAs, LSOAs) and comparison groups
of areas
• Time periods
• Metric types eg population, area size,
spending, performance indicators
• Values for area/ time period / metric type
combinations

4. Metric types
http://standards.esd.org.uk
http://id.esd.org.uk/list/metricTypes

5. Fetching data – helper app
http://live.componentdemo.esd.org.uk/

6. Security
• Public/private key to sign each URL
• OAuth to provide user specific data and extra
private metrics

7. What you need
Links
• http://api.esd.org.uk – basic API documents
• Full web method details
• Sign-in to use component demo
• Private key
• Extra resources and contacts
Ask for email message with full information

8. Help
Mike Dom Maxim
Twitter @MikeThacker
This weekend: Mike.Thacker@esd.org.uk
Afterwards: Support@esd.org.uk