Raymond Yee: APIs: What they are and why they matter to digital humanities?

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Raymond Yee is President of Data Unbound LLC. He is author of the leading book on web mashups, Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress). He has been a contributing writer for ProgrammableWeb, the web’s premiere resource for tracking developments in APIs and mashups.

At the UC Berkeley School of Information, he taught Mixing and Remixing Information, a course on using APIs to create mashups. He has co-written three influential reports on how the US government can improve its efforts to make data and services available through APIs.

Raymond served as the Integration Advisor for the Zotero Project (a widely used open source research tool) and managed the Zotero Commons, a collaboration between George Mason University and the Internet Archive.