2019 LD4 Conference: National Archives API
Channel: LD4
Date: 2019-06-13

LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries, Boston, Massachusetts May 10, 2019
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Dominic Byrd-McDevitt. The National Archives API: A Five-Year Journey from Idea to Imperative
Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1s2XTt2zSTWmyXDkmarOR9ADaaKKCScTS
This session is about the story of the National Archives' first catalog API—our design choices, use cases, philosophies—and how it has evolved over 5 years of development and use, and become engrained in our daily work. It is a story not just about the API itself, but how the act of designing an API from scratch has provoked us to change old ways of thinking about discovery, reference, and, ultimately, archival work itself.