APIs: A Librarian’s Perspective

Laura WrubelGeorge Washington University

@liblauraSociety for Scholarly Publishing

May 28, 2015

making APIs usable

feature not an add-on

clear terms of use

(and plenty of it)

open documentation

keep it simple

facilitate sharing code

use the API yourself

be available

lwrubel@gwu.eduu@liblaura

thanks!