Winter (Spring) 2017

Hey Everyone,

As promised, here is our March newsletter with updates on new features

and changes to the API.

*New Endpoints + Data*

*Computer Labs*

Endpoint about how many computers are available, occupied and are in maintenance in particular lab is finally available on the API!

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/computerlabs.json

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/computerlabs/environment.json

*Feds club data*

The list of feds clubs events is now available on the API!

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/feds/clubs/events.json

*Varsity Games*

We now have more granular data of the varsity games held on and off campus:

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/athletics/varsitygames.json

*Shoe Tags*

Info about all the shoe tags is now in open data API

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/athletics/shoetags.json

*Orcid*

Now we, can access all the publications of UW faculty just by inputting their WAT_IAM_ID

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/orcid/{wat_iam_id}.json

https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/orcid/jhonek.json

*Wireless*

*Crowd Reporter*

*Data Updates*

Added a lot more api tests in open data for monitoring the api status

You can find the documentation for these endpoints on our github repo:

https://github.com/uwaterloo/api-documentation

*App Showcase!*

- WatBalance:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cg.watbalance

- UW Flow Awards+Scholarship (featuring NLP!):  https://uwflow.com

- WatTools:  http://uwaterloo.xyz

- You Want Food:  https://projects.zacharyseguin.ca/you-want-food

*What We're Working On*

- Open Scholar

- Microwaves datasets, bike lockers datasets, Mental Health Resources dataset

Happy Developing!

The Open Data Team

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