The Open Platform is the suite of services enabling partners to build applications with the Guardian.
This is the launch event presentation given to the media, our partners, developers and friends of the Guardian on Tuesday, 10 March, 2009.
3. Background Demos Partners
Emily Bell Mat Wall Matt McAlister
Director of Digital Lead Software Head of Guardian
Content Architect Developer Network
Mike Bracken Tom Marsh
Director of Technology Developer
Development
Simon Willison
Stephen Dunn Software Architect
Head of Technology
Strategy
Simon Rogers
Editor
4. Weaving the
Guardian into the
fabric of the Internet
8. “The international audience for
guardian.co.uk has brought a new
goal within reach:
for The Guardian to become the
world’s leading liberal voice”
GMG Scott Trust website
42. 1. Permanent
• “A cool URI is one that does not change”
Tim Berners-Lee 1998
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/
43. 1. Permanent
• “A cool URI is one that does not change”
Tim Berners-Lee 1998
• 1.5 million resources redirected to new scheme
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fstorr/
44. 2. Addressable
★ Resources are “about” something - ready for the social
web.
★ We live in “the age of point-at-things” (Coates 2005)
45. 2. Addressable
★ Resources are “about” something - ready for the social
web.
★ We live in “the age of point-at-things” (Coates 2005)
46. 2. Addressable
★ Resources are “about” something - ready for the social
web.
★ We live in “the age of point-at-things” (Coates 2005)
75. guardian.co.uk
• 1 million items of content published
between 1999 - 2008
• News, reviews, sports, comment,
debate
• tag metadata applied to content by our
editors
77. Article
Video
Audio
Tags Content
Gallery
Cartoon
78. Keyword Article
Video
Contributor
Audio
Series Tags Content
Gallery
Publication
Cartoon
Tone
79. Keyword Article
Tags are attached to content by editors
Video
Contributor
Both tags & content have
editorial value
Audio
Series Tags Content
Tags can be combined to create
customised resources: pages, RSS feeds
Gallery
Publication
Cartoon
Tone
80. guardian.co.uk
• Has an amazing amount of quality content
• Content meta-data curated by guardian
editors
• Fantastic playground for our internal
development team
How do we open this to the world?
81. Content API
• Backed off our search engine
• Provides access to all article content & tags
• Supports multiple output formats: XML,
JSON, ATOM
• Supports free text search across content
• Search for keywords
95. Partners
Technology Client Libraries
Services
Tom Armitage
Mashery
Kalv Sandhu
Endeca
James Darling
Dave Nattris
Michael Lee
96. • AMEE maps and tracks energy data.
• We plan to use the Open Platform to help them
distribute AMEE data more widely.
97. • AMEE maps and tracks energy data.
• We plan to use the Open Platform to help them
distribute AMEE data more widely.
98. • Stamen Design is a San Francisco design firm
• APIMaps.org is a crowdsourced news geotagger
built with OpenStreetMap.
99. • Zemanta is a content analysis service.
• They built a search utility that links Guardian
content to the open web - wikipedia, flickr, etc.
100. • Kalv Sandhu is a Ruby developer.
• TweetReviews surfaces twitter conversations
related to events reviewed by the Guardian.
101. • Kalv Sandhu is a Ruby developer.
• TweetReviews surfaces twitter conversations
related to events reviewed by the Guardian.
102. • Yahoo! has several developer services such as
BOSS,YQL and Flickr that make mashups better.
• Christian Heilmann built a “news mixer” tool
that returns interesting resources on any topic.
103. • The Cass Sculpture Foundation commissions,
sells and loans sculptures from British artists.
• They added related articles from the Guardian
to each artist’s bio page on their web site.
104. • The Cass Sculpture Foundation commissions,
sells and loans sculptures from British artists.
• They added related articles from the Guardian
to each artist’s bio page on their web site.
108. What does “free” mean?
• You can publish full articles from the
Guardian
• 5k queries per day limit, online
support
• Partner with us on advertising
109. New revenue
opportunities based
on new uses for
Guardian articles
• Embedded ads • Behavioral targeting
• Performance-based • Reselling and
advertising redistributing data
110. Beta Trial
• Keys approved on a limited basis
• Collecting feedback to understand how
people want to work with us
• Will open more widely soon
114. • Getting
• Data Store
Started
• information
Get a key
• API Explorer
115. • Getting
• T&Cs
• Data Store
Started
• Help
• information
Get a key
• FAQs
• API Explorer
116. Frequently Asked
Questions
• What is the Open • How do I get help?
Platform?
• What are the use
• Where is the rights?
documentation?
• How much content is
• What can I make with available?
it?
• When will it be more
• What are the widely available?
limitations?
• Who else is using it?
• How do I get access?
117.
118. CONTENT API DATA STORE
A free service for A directory of
selecting and useful data curated
collecting Guardian by Guardian editors
content for re-use
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform