U.S. Dept. of Education Launches Online Hub For Developers

From the Dept. of Education:

Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) launches its first developer hub, a dedicated space for centralizing our developer resources, documenting open government efforts at the agency, and celebrating what you have built using ED data and code.
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With the help of 18F and offices across the Department, we are excited to introduce ED’s official developer hub usedgov.github.io—an extension of ED’s official Github account @usedgov!
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For some time, the College Scorecard API and code repository were all that we could feature. To expand our offerings, 18F helped us set up an instance of their open source project,AutoAPI, an API engine that converts flat files into a web service. That technology gives ED a simple and easy way to deliver more APIs. We used it to create a set of My Brother’s Keeper APIs and Civil Rights Data Collection APIs, providing additional access points to compelling student equity data. Now centrally located and documented, these resources (and those to come) will be more discoverable and easier to use.

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The new resource includes four examples of how data/APIs are being used.
Direct to U.S. Dept. of Education Developer Hub

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