The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called “Open Platform“, which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper.
The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content.
Another part of Open Platform, the Data Store, provides statistics and data curated by Guardian editors and open for other to use.
The initial release is a beta trial to identify the best partnerships.
Among the partners you can already find the Cass Sculpture Foundation, using the service to add Guardian articles about British artist to its site.
Obviously an important step for the concepts of Linked Data and Data Portability.
Here you have one of the first applications I found using Guardian and Zemanta public APIs.
Let me know what you think and if you find others.
Source: Kevin Anderson / the Guardian
