Open hydrosquall opened 9 years ago
Update- turns out there's a student developer portal with some APIs already built by the IT team and some 3rd party vendors (laundry and transit) although whether they're still active is questionable. Going to investigate further.
If a University posts data relevant to the campus categories in non-API format, the
_data/rankings.yml
file should link to a page with links to those resources.For example, it's likely that course, sporting event, and food menu is available somewhere for most universities, even if not in friendly API format. Creating a page like this will enable non-technical volunteers to identify what data sources are missing. This way, campus data initiatives can differentiate between what existing data sources can be turned into RESTful APIs, and what data isn't being reported online at all. This separation will make it easier for technical and non-technical members to identify how to most effectively spend their time (ex technical members may write scrapers or move spreadsheets into databases; non-technical members can explore how to begin publishing data even if not in API format).
I'll get around to creating one for Yale in the near future, the below comment contains links to the sort of content that would go onto such a page for Yale.
This paints a more descriptive picture of the state of online data for a university rather than marking "false" for everything there isn't an API for. Perhaps an intermediary symbol (say, a yellow circle, like a traffic light) could represent data that is published online regularly in a non-API friendly way.
Created using the comments that were drafted from this pull request: https://github.com/CampusData/campusdata.github.io/pull/16