Fun with NASA's Open Data Portal - News - SparkFun Electronics

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-25

Summary:

"One of the most powerful tools available to tinkerers and prototypers is the Application Program Interface. An API is the structure by which two computer programs talk to each other – think of it as a traffic cop for information traveling between two applications.

In a workshop at SXSW EDU last year, I encountered NASA’s open data platform. My mind was blown by the fact that a good percentage of NASA’s projects reveal their data and code through an open API, and it’s all fairly well supported and reasonably easy to get started with...."

Link:

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2807

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.usa oa.nasa oa.astronomy oa.data oa.apis

Date tagged:

10/25/2018, 09:59

Date published:

10/25/2018, 05:59