Web Services and API Dump

This page is now slightly less messy and unco-ordinated than previously but is still being knocked into some sort of shape, please add to it or send in more suggestions.

Warwickshire County council RSS Feeds
Jobs – Non-Teaching:
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/jobs-nonteach-rss.xml
Jobs – Teaching:
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/jobs-teach-rss.xml
School Closures:
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/schoolclosures-rss.xml
Committee Meetings (iCal):
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/ics/committee-meet-ics.ics
Committee Meetings RSS:
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/committee-meet-rss.xml
Councillors:
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/councillors-rss.xml
Elections 09:
http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/elections09-rss.xml
Events:
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/eventdbp.nsf/eventsfeed.rss.2.0?openpage
News:
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/newsstor.nsf/newsfeed.rss.2.0

Jobs – Non-Teaching

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/jobs-nonteach-rss.xml

Jobs – Teaching

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/jobs-teach-rss.xml

School Closures

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/schoolclosures-rss.xml

Committee Meetings (iCal)

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/ics/committee-meet-ics.ics

Committee Meetings RSS

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/committee-meet-rss.xml

Councillors

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/councillors-rss.xml

Elections 09

http://info.warwickshire.gov.uk/rss/elections09-rss.xml

Events

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/eventdbp.nsf/eventsfeed.rss.2.0?openpage

News

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/newsstor.nsf/newsfeed.rss.2.0Sources of public data

Sources Of Public Data
The Guardian Open Platform Area
NHS Choices
Neighbourhood Statistics Data Exchange
hmg.gov.uk/data (preview site where central gov are working on exposing public data sets)

General API Links
The Programmable Web list of APIs
The BBC Backstage Feeds and API Page
API Page for the mysociety applications such as fixmystreet
A long list of many public service and related services/feeds/APIs from the show us a better way project
Feedbooks API
The Programmable Web – API Index
Google Spreadsheets APIs and Tools (Labs)
Yahoo term extraction service, extracts significant phrases from a piece of content
A simple API for schools info, from the Rewired State project
The Flickr API Documentation
Set of services from Flickr
Think Free Office Live
Blackberry Java Development

Social Networking API Links
Twitter API Wiki
Facebook API Wiki
MySpace REST Resources & API
NING OpenSocial API SUpport
YouTube APIs and Tools
Digg API
Google Wave API

Map API links
The Ordnance Survey openspace API
The openstreetmap project – a free wiki world map
The ubiquitous Google Maps API
Yahoo geo-coding API

API Tools
Feed43, a tool for creating feeds from web sites
Dapper, a set of services for creating web services via screen scraping and other techniques
Feedburner API
Open Calais, creates semantic metadata for web content

Development tools
Yahoo Pipes, a tool for aggregating content, feeds and services
Microsoft Popfly, a visual mashup/game creation tool
Scala API

Examples of Mashups
The projects that were put together at the rewired state event
US example of showing social care information on Google maps
Library mashup with amazon
Community Walks – map your walk using Google maps

RSS Links
Via Lore Librarian a long list of government RSS feeds
Set of central gov and related organisation RSS feeds via information overlord