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1st July 2020

Webservices and API Design Guide - Project history

The aim of the project is to build a system, the Icelandic webservices, that provides information on government data and web services to users.

About the project:

Without a sense of urgency, you read listed services on X-Road and retrieve descriptions of them and display them in an interface in a user-friendly manner. Webservices list then provides easy access to open data web services through the portal (API Gateway). For this to work, a clear API Design Guide with instructions for web services is required. The API Design Guide will be published in the web interface of the Icelandic webservices.

Challenge:

The biggest challenge for the project is the connection to X-Road. That documents and data on web services are in a homogeneous form so that automated reading will be anointed and provided with the summary in the webservices list.

Benefits:

Easy access to government web services and data.

More details on the project:

https://github.com/island-is/handbook/tree/master/docs/api-design-guide
(Not already merged pull request but ending there)

Partners:

Digital Iceland and government institutions

Development team:

Advania