{"id":1113,"date":"2011-02-16T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/02\/dev8d-lightning-talk-pims-api-challenge\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T10:20:25","slug":"dev8d-lightning-talk-pims-api-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/02\/dev8d-lightning-talk-pims-api-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev8D Lightning Talk: PIMS API Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Wilton (@StephenCWilton<\/a>)
\nJISC Project Information Management System (PIMS) – http:\/\/pims.jisc.ac.uk
\nDeveloped API to expose data – http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/689x4gd<\/a> (currently in Beta)<\/p>\n

RESTful API:
\n        Exposes data over http
\n        Allows creation and update of core data
\n        Relationships between entities are represented as URI<\/p>\n

CHALLENGE … – produce a mobile app that users the PIMS API<\/strong><\/p>\n

Platform agnostic but … within JISC staff the breakdown of mobile usage is roughly
\n        40% iPhone
\n        40% Android
\n        10% Blackberry<\/p>\n

Tips – DTDs exist for all GET calls
\n        ML Schema Definitions exist for all PUT and POST calls
\n        DTDs and XSDs are NOT symmetric
\n        PUT and POST will only succedd if you authenticate
\n        Some resources expose more information when authenticated<\/p>\n

Prizes:
\n        Announcement in http:\/\/www.jisc.ac.uk\/inform<\/a>
\n        \u00a350 Amazon Voucher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Wilton (@StephenCWilton) JISC Project Information Management System (PIMS) – http:\/\/pims.jisc.ac.uk Developed API to expose data – http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/689x4gd (currently in Beta) RESTful API:         Exposes data over http         Allows creation and update of core data         Relationships between entities are represented as URI CHALLENGE … – produce a mobile app that users the PIMS API Platform agnostic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,60],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dev8d","tag-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}