Week 6

APIs and Linked Data

You’ll learn about how data is made accessible via APIs and what people mean when they talk about “linked data.”

Read, view, and listen

• 2015-02-05. Dorothea Salo. MARC, Linked Data, and Human-Computer Asymmetry (7min)
• 2015-02-19. Matthew Hughes. What Is An API & What Are They Good For? (6 min)
• 2012-06-16. Manu Sporny. What is Linked Data? (video, 12 minutes)

In-class activities

1. Slides: Python review + APIs, including links to the following:
   • Spotify API documentation
   • Judge my Spotify
   • GIPHY API
   • Postman API platform
   • Star Wars API
     • Web app built on Star Wars API
     • Searches to try on Star Wars API
   • Marvel API documentation
   • Use Python to work with an API
   • List of APIs
2. Video: Linked open data (also see slides)