[okfn-discuss] APIs vs bulk data, in the face of a government shutdown

[Eric Mill]

Hey all - since the US government just withdrew a bunch of its data from
the Internet as part of its shutdown, I wrote about the role of the open
government community in preservation, and how an API-only approach makes
that harder:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/10/02/government-apis-arent-a-backup-plan/

I imagine these are points most of you are familiar with, but APIs are a
huge focus of the US government's open data strategy, and preservation
hasn't been widely discussed until this shutdown.

-- Eric

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