Data.gov To House New APIs, By Dawn Lim, TechInsider (06/21/10).
A series of new application programming interfaces – tools that facilitate interaction between datasets and other software programs – will make it easier for developers to play and interact with the content on Data.gov, the online repository of federal information and a cornerstone of the open government initiative.
But those are just the preliminary steps to establishing a self-running ecosystem that will convert raw government data into valuable content and interesting applications, a White House technology expert said last week at a government IT forum.
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