Dave Goldberg's presentation from DC API Meetup on 12/13/12.

1. Washington Post APIs
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012

2. Washington Post API Strategy
We will develop a robust core of interconnected,
structured data to provide a foundation for
profitable and innovative applications, both
internally and externally

3. A data platform we can leverage.
The data is available* and we have the tools to build new
products in a nimble way.
Internal External
Customers Social Reader Topics Pages Developers Apps
New Products Newsroom Gov Agencies Other
APIs/ Portal Productized API Layer
Data Sources & Washington Post Government & Trove / Social Crowd Sourcing Other Data Sets
Services Content Public Data Reader / UGC (Local, …)
White House Visitor’s LogEntity extraction, recommendations
Available Data Campaign Finance
Who Runs Gov Data Government spending and contract data

4. Challenges we face
The data is available* … but needs to be managed, cleansed,
curated and edited
Internal External
Customers Social Reader Topics Pages Developers Apps
New Products Newsroom Gov Agencies Other
APIs/ Portal Productized API Layer
Data Cleansing Resources needed!
Data Sources & Washington Post Government & Trove / Social Crowd Sourcing Other Data Sets
Services Content Public Data Reader / UGC (Local, …)
White House Visitor’s LogEntity extraction, recommendations
Available Data Campaign Finance
Who Runs Gov Data Government spending and contract data

5. The Overall API ecosystem
Multi- News, Data & Information
dimensional Social Networks Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise
E-Commerce
Product Catalogs
Tools
Advertising
One-
dimensional
Information Platform
source

6. Challenges we face