Evaluation of Application Programming Interfaces for INSPIRE
The report investigates new developments in geospatial standards and technologies, foremost the new OGC API – Features and SensorThings API standards, within the context of the INSPIRE work programme. For this purpose, an evaluation strategy was developed to determine how these new and emerging standards can best be utilized to leverage existing investments by EU Member States, as well as supporting new developments in e-Government and the Digital Single Market. The evaluation focused on various facets of usability ranging from the configuration and deployment aspects of service deployment to ease of uptake of the API, and included a wide range of stakeholders within the evaluation process. The outcomes of this investigation were analysed, relevant guidance materials created based on insights gained, and widely disseminated to interested stakeholders.
While usability evaluation has long been an established practice pertaining to Human Computer Interaction (HCI), this has often been neglected in regard to APIs, alternatively subsumed within a more general code review process. Research has shown that a well-structured API usability evaluation can ameliorate issues in the implementation phase, and greatly increase uptake of the API.
SCHLEIDT Katharina;
VAN DER SCHAAF Hylke;
MOSSGRABER Juergen;
GRELLET Sylvain;
OLIVEIRA Nuno;
2022-04-01
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC128885
978-92-76-49644-1 (online),
OP KJ-01-22-203-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128885,
10.2760/00811 (online),
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