SmartAPI
SmartAPI
BUILDING A CONNECTED NETWORK OF FAIR APIS
BUILDING A CONNECTED NETWORK OF FAIR APIS
New to SmartAPI?
New to SmartAPI?
Follow this step-by-step guide to help you contribute to SmartAPI for the first time
What is a SmartAPI?
What is a SmartAPI?
The SmartAPI project aims to maximize the FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) of web-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Rich metadata is essential to properly describe your API so that it becomes discoverable, connected, and reusable. We have developed a openAPI-based specification for defining the key API metadata elements and value sets. SmartAPI's leverage the Open API specification v3 and JSON-LD for providing semantically annotated JSON content that can be treated as Linked Data.
Registry
RegistrySearch the registry of SmartAPIs
Editor
EditorAuthor your own SmartAPI metadata
API
APILearn about and access the SmartAPI services
Specification
SpecificationSmartAPI metadata specification to start your API
Guide
GuideContribute to SmartAPI for the first time
Working Group
Working GroupJoin the API Interoperability working group
Why do we need SmartAPIs?
Why do we need SmartAPIs?
Data analysis is increasingly being performed using cloud-based, web-friendly application programming interfaces (APIs). Thousands of tools and APIs are available through web service registries such as Programmable Web, BioCatalogue and cloud platforms such as Galaxy. Searching these and other API repositories to find a set of tools to retrieve or operate on data of interest presents a number of formidable challenges: users must not only supply the right combination of search terms, but must also closely examine the API outputs to determine whether they can be connected together. SmartAPIs tackle this challenge because they contain the rich metadata needed to precisely describe the service and the data that it operates on or provides.
What does the SmartAPI offer?
What does the SmartAPI offer?
Richly annotated APIs will provide the assets by which users will be able to search, browse, query, and reuse APIs. Users and intelligent agents being able to traverse a highly connected network of smartAPIs. Users will be able to automatically find APIs whose outputs are the inputs for other services. Ultimately, we envision the automatic generation of workflows that take users to where they want to go with what they have today.