Archives: NARA Wants Your Input on Their Digitization Strategy, What Should They Focus On?

From a NARAtions Blog Post:

At the National Archives, we are working to make our data and information available to you.
Weigh in and let us know what you’d like us to focus on.
We’ve developed two lists. The first list is for proposed services to optimize for mobile use, so you can better access these services via a smartphone, tablet, or another mobile device. The second list is for systems to enable via Web Services like APIs, so that the data will be more accessible, especially for developers to reuse. Candidates were selected based on the possibility of implementation by May 2013. Please also let us know what additional candidates you would like to see optimized for mobile or enabled via APIs in the future.
In the comments below, please let us know what you would like to prioritized and specific recommendations for what will be most useful to you. If you prefer, you can email your recommendations to opengov@nara.gov.
To learn more about the agency’s implementation of the Digital Government Strategy, please visit archives.gov/digitalstrategy and archives.gov/open.
Proposed Mobile Candidates:

• Mobile optimize FederalRegister.gov.
• Develop a mobile application based on the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents.
• Mobile optimize Archives.gov.
• Mobile optimize the Online Public Access resource, the online public portal for National Archives records.
• Make additional National Archives records available through Wikipedia, which is mobile optimized and available through mobile apps.
• Make additional National Archives records available through Flickr, which is mobile optimized and available through mobile apps.
• Make improvements to Today’s Document mobile application.
• Make improvements to the mobile application for DocsTeach, an online educational resource featuring National Archives records.

Proposed API Candidates: 

• Integration of Regulations.gov API into FederalRegister.gov and its API. This integration would provide greater access to public comments and supporting documents in Regulations.gov, and improve process for submitting public comments from FederalRegister.gov to Regulations.gov.
• Expand the FederalRegister.gov API to include the “Public Inspection Desk.”
• Develop an API for FDsys through the Office of Federal Register – Government Printing Office Partnership.
• Develop an API for the Online Public Access resource, the online public portal for National Archives records.
• Make additional National Archives records available through Wikipedia,  which is accessible through the MediaWiki API.
• Make additional National Archives records available through Flickr, which is accessible through the Flickr API.

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