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Project: Literature review of Government API Best Practices
Written by Mark Boyd
Updated at Sat Aug 14 2021

A comprehensive literature review of best practices relevant to Government API activities
Client: European Commission's Joint Research Centre
Timeline: 6 months (June - December 2019)
Tools used: Google Sheets, Google Docs, Zotero, Microsoft Excel, Data Miner Chrome Extension
Outcomes:
- Literature review of 343 best practice documents
- Used to inform workshop activities held with over 60 government stakeholders
- Analysis of findings used to support creation of evidence-based API Framework for governments
- Creation of open dataset collating the best practice documents: http://data.europa.eu/89h/7340ab8a-ef73-459b-a2d9-b64e1a5bb680

Mark Boyd
DIRECTOR