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Nyss Open legislation
- 1. Open Legislation “Browse, search and share legislative Information from the New York State Senate”
- 2. The Developers Nathan Freitas Jared Williams Graylin Kim #nyss_openlegislation @ freenode
- 3. Announcements Opened our platform – Eclipse J2EE, detailed setup instructions – Moved to Github! ● http://github.com/nysenatecio/OpenLegislation Went Mobile! – On the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and iPad Gathering outside interest
- 4. Summer 2010 Improving asa Platform
- 5. We'll look atthen and now to make clear our trajectory. Then, end with an open discussion on the destination of the platform.
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- 8. API Collection – /api/1.0/<format>/<otype>/<oid> – /api/1.0/html/bill/S66026 – /api/1.0/html/calendar/cal-floor-00001-2009-2010 – /api/1.0/html/transcript/1401 Search – search/?term=<query>&format=<format> – /search/?term=otype:action&pageIdx=5&pageSize=40 Shortcuts - /<shortcut> – /actions – /bills – /votes
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- 10. API Rules 1. URLLayout Should be Consistent and Unified – /2.0/<command> 2. Required Arguments Should be explicit – /2.0/<command>/<the>/<required>.<format> 3. Arguments should be clear and understandable – /2.0/bill/<bill_id>-<session year>.<format> – /2.0/calendar/<type>-<MM-DD-YYYY>.<format> – /2.0/transcript/<type>-<MM-DD-YYYY>.<format> 4. Provide as much information as possible
- 11. API /2.0/command(/<required_arg>)*.<format> Examples – /2.0/search.html?term=oid:S66026 AND otype:bill – /2.0/bill/S66026-2009.json – /2.0/transcript/regular-06-22-2010.xml – /2.0/calendar/tomorrow.html Not backwards compatible!
- 12. Data <response> { <metadata> "metadata": { <total>20</total> "total":20, <status>SUCCESS</status> "status":"success" </metadata> }, <results> "results": [ <result> { <type>bill</type> "type":"bill", <data> "data":{ <id>S60023</id> "id":"S60023", <text> ..... </text> "text":"....", ... ... </data> } </result> }, .... .... Reflection driven dumps of all (useful) available data!
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- 14. We don't havemetrics (we probably should) Just trust us, it got faster Lets look at how
- 15. 3 Stage Process 1.Populating MySQL 2. Populating Lucene 3. Serving the Data – Routing the Requests – Load the Data – Render the Data
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- 24. Looking to theFuture
- 25. Some thoughts... Complete decouplingof Data Models Automation with Reflection/Annotation Standards for Data Models Client Libraries for more languages, platforms
- 26. Work is alwaysongoing Suggestions, issues, and concerns are ALWAYS welcome.