tombcghtech/api_guidelines huggingface dataset:
About APIs
Find out what an API can do to improve your customer’s experience.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) define the ways in which applications and software components communicate with each other.
The term usually refers to web-based APIs, which underpin digital ecosystems by making services and information easily available within and across organisations.
Benefits of an API
APIs allow:
open or appropriately secured information and data to flow within government
government and non-government systems to interact with each other
information to be held in 1 place but used and reused in many places
active support for the principles for open and transparent government.
An API:
saves time — updated information is available through the API automatically
helps to make information more reliable as it managed from 1 source
makes it possible to share information through many sources in a consistent way
increases the focus on customer needs by enabling agencies to share information and deliver multi-agency or ‘joined-up’ services more efficiently.