api /v1 on the way in, embed code on the way out.

[Jason Priem]

Howdy Y'all, 

After a really exciting launch of ImpactStory on Monday, we're turning our attention to the API in the next few weeks. We've already changed things a bit to report percentiles as well as raw numbers. But we're making some bigger changes, and releasing them as api /v1, scheduled for release late next month. That'll have:

• a /v1 in the url. duh :)
• possibly some minor updates to the json schema for items.
• no more tiids. Items can be added directly by DOI, without any intermediate steps.
• the JS embed code is going away. We're getting much more interest in the REST API, and the embed stuff is a lot of work to maintain--especially since it now needs a pretty thorough overhaul in the wake of the relaunch. You'll still be able to customize our item-display js and run it locally if you want to emulate our display style.

As always, questions and feedback welcome. Really excited about launching a more stable API to go along with the relaunch!

j

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Jason Priem
UNC Royster Scholar
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill