Call for Participation in WebAPI Discovery Community Group

The WebAPI Discovery Community Group has been launched:

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.

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.

This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2016-12-01 by Ivan Goncharov. The following people supported its creation: Ivan Goncharov, Mike Ralphson, Roman Hotsiy, Jesse van Dam, Mohamed ZERGAOUI. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.

We invite you to share news of this new group in social media and other channels.

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

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team