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14:32 pdurbin
shauna: I'm thinking that rather than a WelcomeBot I could just set up a cron job to query my database for new nicks on a regular basis and email me (or something) if someone new joins.
14:57 shauna
pdurbin: how often do you check your email? for me, the value of the bot is that it tells me (and Mark and Asheesh) right away if someone's there, so in the majority of cases we can respond right away.
14:57 shauna
usually if the person leaves anyway at that point, there's nothing we can do since we don't have any other contact info. Although the bot does tell people to email us and I'd say maybe 1-5% of the people it greets do that.
14:59 shauna
Anyway, of course you can capture some of the functionality of the bot in other ways. Up to you. :)
16:27 pdurbin
:)
16:28 pdurbin
shauna: I'll keep thinking about it.
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16:33 pdurbin
who wants to talk about Search APIs?
16:33 pdurbin
axfelix balo jeffspies_ JonathanNeal LyndsySimon mjturk shauna skay ^^
16:33 * LyndsySimon
wakes up, blinks, and looks around.
16:34 pdurbin
Search API Functional Requirements Document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FfB4hX2FE-xVRzDpW9UcV7-FBN2vWd4cIpAbI_GtRWY/edit?usp=sharing
16:34 LyndsySimon
Search isn't really an area where I have a ton of expertise, but API design is something I'm fairly passionate about.
16:34 * pdurbin
is passionate about both :)
16:52 pdurbin
skay: you are on it!
16:52 pdurbin
thanks!
16:52 skay
I blame orbitz -- I learned a lot about api stuff there
16:53 pdurbin
thank you orbitz
16:57 skay
pdurbin: for restricting size of responses via limiting fields -- the youtube api is an example of it in practice. and it's probably discussed in http://apigee.com/about/resources/ebooks/web-api-design but I cannot recall
16:58 skay
pdurbin: and for pragmatism versus dogmatism you'll make choices about whether a client should use http headers for some things versus using query params.
16:58 skay
pdurbin: query params are friendlier
16:58 skay
pdurbin: makes it easier for a dev to do a sanity check in a browser
16:58 skay
pdurbin: versus having to find some browser extension to make it easy to set http headers
16:58 skay
or typing them all ont he commandline with curl
16:59 skay
pdurbin: why yes, we did get in to some heated debates about pragmatism, why do you ask? ;)
17:00 skay
pdurbin: I don't know how big your search respones get in general, so don't overthink how you want to control for payload size in ways such as using compression or also providing adapters to return bit-packed things
17:02 skay
oh, I just saw your response about path to file versus path to landing page.
17:03 skay
pdurbin: ugh, I wonder if there is a precedent for designing an action in an api that is equivalent to agreeing with a policy. if an api exchange can be valid, then maybe you could have something like:
17:03 * skay
thinks, maybe go make this commend in the doc
17:10 skay
pdurbin: I'm heading mentally back to work now. ttyl
17:24 mjturk
pdurbin: hiya, sorry, for some reason that didn't highlight me
17:25 mjturk
not sure i have much to contribute tho :)
17:30 JonathanNeal
Search API 's? Depends on the context
17:44 pdurbin
JonathanNeal: we're designing one
17:44 pdurbin
mjturk: no worries. good morning :)
17:44 mjturk
pdurbin: you too :)
18:02 pdurbin
LyndsySimon: does OSF have a Search API ?
18:06 pdurbin
or... what is everyone's favorite Search API ?
18:07 pdurbin
this might be a better question for #rest
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18:30 skay
I have love/hate relationships with search apis and have trouble answering hte question
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18:31 skay
I feel frustration with any api I use. e.g. I told you how the youtube api gives options for next page tokens and also has clients explictely specify which fields should get returned
18:31 pdurbin
skay: you're off the hook, having helped so much already :)
18:31 skay
so, it's an example of that in operation. but, I admit I seriously get pissed off at that api and their stuff in general
18:31 skay
it seems clear as mud
18:31 skay
I have to dig around to figure out what I want
18:32 skay
I had to experiment with the api to see how to get a list of videos from a channel versus playlist versus whatnot
18:32 skay
pdurbin: oh thanks. I'm relieved
18:32 skay
pdurbin: derp. I realize I clicked on yoru doc and used my canonical identity. I thought I was using my plain old gmail one. no big deal
18:33 * pdurbin
doesn't know the difference
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19:52 pdurbin
Dataverse Project Receives New Sloan Grant to Expand API Integration to More Journals and Publishing Systems - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dataverse-community/GrcmcFNgchI
19:52 pdurbin
axfelix: hooray!
19:56 mjturk
congrats!
20:11 skay
\o/
20:11 pdurbin
:)
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21:45 axfelix
eleni told me! super exciting
21:45 pdurbin
yep!
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23:39 pdurbin
ah, and here's our blog post about it: A Bridge from Publishing Words to Publishing Data | Data Science - http://datascience.iq.harvard.edu/blog/bridge-publishing-words-publishing-data
23:42 pdurbin
fightin' words about SWORD, almost
