Moving Toward a USWDS API
USWDS Monthly Call - February 2022
In this event, we will explore possibilities for a component API for the U.S. Web Design System.
2022
Application programming interface
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Resources.Data.gov
An online repository of policies, schema standards, tools, best practices, and case studies to provide agencies with resources for federal data management.
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API.Data.gov
A free API management service for federal agencies.
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Code.gov
A collection of federal source code including open source software.
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Data.gov
Data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications.
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
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News and Events on Application programming interface
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Find out how the U.S. Data Federation’s work can help you. The team will give an introduction to the problems the U.S. Data Federation seeks to address, describe its approach, and share its vision for the future of the initiative.
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2019
This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest.
2019
Q&A With Ryan Day About GSA’s API Strategy
These new API standards will make it easier for GSA staff to launch and maintain good APIs.
An opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest.
2018
This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Remote participants will be able to join in via Google Hangout. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.
2018
This afternoon event is an opportunity for API practitioners from across federal agencies to come together, share news, and discuss topics of interest. Anyone with a federal .gov or .mil address is welcome to attend.
2018
The Data Briefing: Design-Driven Enterprise Architecture Creating the New Federal Government Agency
It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on enterprise architecture (EA). My last in-depth work with EA was around 2011 when I was on detail to the Office of Personnel Management’s Open Government Team. The EA model I worked with was the top-down organizational design of information technology assets, data assets, and business processes.
The New FEC.gov
Last week, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) unveiled their new website at FEC.gov. This new site is the result of a years-long collaboration with GSA’s 18F and features completely revamped tools for exploring campaign finance data. It provides user-centered content for understanding the reporting and compliance requirements for people participating in federal elections, redesigned tools
The Data Briefing: The Department of Education Needs Your Help with their First Developers’ Site
The Department of Education (ED) launched its first developer site. The developer site is built on GitHub which will make it easier for ED to centralize their code and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Currently, ten APIs are on the developer site: The Civil Right Data Collection (CRDC) APIs: These three APIs give information on public
Inspiring Data Forum at the Canadian Space Agency
Last [month], NASA Open Innovation Program Manager Dr. Beth Beck and her team traveled to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) near Montreal, Canada to attend the Inspiring Data Forum graciously hosted by our Open Data neighbors to the North. The goal of this gathering was to bolster the working relationship between the two Space Agency’s
DigitalGov University in Review: 2016 Training Trends
Thanks to your participation, DigitalGov University (DGU), the events platform for DigitalGov, hosted over 90 events with 6,648 attendees from over 100 agencies across federal, tribal, state, and local governments.
GSA Presents: Grace Hopper Day Hackathon!
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Digital Service team is excited to be hosting our next agency hackathon on December 9, 2016. Join coders from across the region as we come together in celebration of Grace Hopper’s birthday.
New Trademark App Open Source Code on GitHub
Improving the way the government delivers information technology (IT) solutions to its customers isn’t just a goal, it’s our mission. We at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office know that by publishing our open source code, the public can help us come up with new and better IT solutions. In advance of the new Federal
Meeting Patients Where They Are: Liberating Clinical Trials Data Under the Cancer Moonshot
Cancer clinical trials are a critically important step on the pathway for new or improved treatments to make their way to patients in clinics and hospitals in towns and cities across the country. Patients and their loved ones are relying on these rigorous studies to determine whether promising new therapies and approaches might extend how
New API Brings EPIC Earth Imagery to Developers
Daily imagery data taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera is now accessible via a RESTful API available from the NASA API Portal. The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) is an instrument aboard NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite, which orbits at Earth’s Lagrange point, the sweet spot in space where the gravitational tug of the Earth and
NASA: Open Gov Plan 2016 Outline
Here is the outline for our 2016 Open Government Plan. Let us know what you think.
The Data Briefing: Microservices and Serverless Apps — A New Direction for Federal Government Mobile Apps?
Continuing from last week’s column on DevOps and containers, I will explain two other hot trends in IT — microservices and serverless apps. For those who want official federal government guidance, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft special publication on microservices, application containers, and system virtual machines (PDF, 660
The Data Briefing: The Census Business Builder—Mashing Up Census Data to Help Build Businesses
The Census Bureau conducts more surveys than just the Constitutionally-mandated Decennial Census. There is also the American Community Survey, the Economic Census, the County Business Patterns series, statistics on Nonemployer businesses, and the Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons. On their own, each survey is full of useful information for researchers, local and state governments, and entrepreneurs.
The Data Briefing: I, For One, Welcome Our New Chatbot Blockchain Digital Autonomous Organizations
It is at the intersections of fields where you find the most fascinating and innovative concepts. Recently, a conference on “Open Human Resources and the Cognitive Era” explored the use of chatbots and blockchain technologies in human resources. Human Resources (HR) is quietly undergoing a revolution as many HR practitioners are transforming HR by using
