Brainstorming Read APIs to pull into USA.gov

[gbinal]

Could any of these content APIs make sense to pull into USA.gov?

Perhaps a combined 'News from across the government' feed or interface. Could be a long streaming page or something with filters like this. [App may not be working anymore]

[gbinal]

• New, Most Popular, or All Active We the People Petitions - https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/developers
• Proposed rulemakings available on Regulations.gov - regulationsgov.github.io/developers
• Performance.gov information about agencies - http://www.performance.gov/api
• USASpending information - http://www.usaspending.gov/data?tab=API
• Recreation.gov information - http://usda.github.io/RIDB/
• Census - http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html
  • Examples here - http://www.census.gov/data/developers/app-gallery.html
• NREL Alternative Fuel Stations - http://developer.nrel.gov/docs/transportation/alt-fuel-stations-v1/
• HHS Healthcare Finder, AIDS Testing Locations - https://finder.healthcare.gov/#services, https://locator.aids.gov/data-how-to.html
  • There are actually a bunch of healthcare provider APIs from different components. A mashup might make sense?
• TSA info - http://www.dhs.gov/mytsa-api-documentation
• NPS maps - http://mapservices.nps.gov/arcgis/sdk/rest/index.html?query.html
  • https://github.com/nationalparkservice/npmap.js
• ATF and BJS crime data
• BLS and DOL labor data
• State Dept. travel alerts - http://ec2-96-127-45-207.us-gov-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/dataset/travel
• State Dept. passport application locations - http://cadataapi.state.gov/
• FAA - http://services.faa.gov/docs/services/airport/
• VA locators, job listings - http://va.gov/developer/
• USAJOB's - open job postings
• CPSC - Recalls API
• NASA Photo of the Day - http://nasa.github.io/api-docs/#apod
• Recent Federal Register entries - https://www.federalregister.gov/blog/learn/developers
• Something from SBA - https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-performance/sba-data-store/web-service-api
• National Archives Catalog API - https://github.com/usnationalarchives/Catalog-API
• GSA Auctions - http://gsa.github.io/auctions_api/
• FDIC - Bank finder - https://github.com/GSA/slash-developer-pages/issues/183

[gbinal]

Another idea - make a quick filter interface for all the public APIs and use cases for them.

So re-use this code to make an interface for this information (and more)

[philipashlock]

• This doesn't exist for most agencies yet, but ideally a feed of compiled Civic Services descriptions from each agency
• This doesn't exist for most agencies yet, but ideally a feed of FAQs from all government webpages using standard schemas like Schema.org Answers and the related work from HHS.
• Google Civic Information API for local government and voting information - at least until Census and EAC are able to provide something comparably current and complete
• A geocoder. The one from the Census might suffice, but otherwise perhaps OpenStreetMap (or via MapQuest open) for free options.

[gbinal]

I REALLY, REALLY recommend this - use Social Media Registry API to:

• Stream of all twitter accounts
• Recent Videos from all Youtube Accounts
• Recent photos from all flickr accounts
• and more ...

Earlier efforts at bottom of this page.