Dear all,

I guess some of you will be interested in the blogpost of my colleague and co-author Ruben regarding the misunderstandings on the use and abuse of APIs in a digital libraries context, including a description of both good and bad practices from Europeana, DPLA and the Cooper Hewitt museum:

http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/

Kind regards,

Seth van Hooland
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