Resources

Learn more about how APIs work

• Subramanian, H., Raj, P., & O’Reilly for Higher Education. (2019). Hands-on RESTful API design patterns and best practices: Design, develop, and deploy highly adaptable, scalable, and secure RESTful web APIs (1st ed.). Birmingham: Packt. http://tinyurl.com/t5ac9ev
• Allamaraju, S., & O’Reilly for Higher Education. (2010). RESTful web services cookbook (1st;1; ed.). Beijing;Sebastopol,CA;: O’Reilly. http://tinyurl.com/stu43gx

Quick reads:

• Smashing Magazine. (2020). Understanding And Using REST APIs — Smashing Magazine. [online] Available at: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/understanding-using-rest-api/.

APIs mentioned in this workshop

• UBC Library Open Collections API
• Numbers API
• The Cat API
• Google APIs Explorer
• NASA APIs

Tools mentioned in this workshop

• OpenRefine
• UBC Syzygy

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