Proposed Group: WebAPI Discovery Community Group

The WebAPI Discovery Community Group has been proposed by Ivan Goncharov:

A group to develop a mechanism for the automatic discovery of WebAPIs, by
extending the schema.org vocabulary.

Increasingly, large online platforms and services provide one or more Web
APIs for third-party developers. Moreover, many companies build WebAPIs as
their primary product (Email API, SMS API, etc.). This has resulted in an
explosion of the number of WebAPIs in recent years. Developers spend a
significant amount of time searching for suitable WebAPIs to meet their
needs.

Our intention is to work closely with Schema.org to define a
WebAPI-specific extension and promote usage of this extension among API
owners. In the long run, our aim is to contribute this extension into the
core Schema.org vocabulary.

To achieve these goals we are seeking feedback and collaboration from API
owners, DX specialists, API description language experts and maintainers of
various API catalogs.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team