The Revolution

ELAG 2014
The black box opens
Marina Muilwijk, software developer University of Utrecht

(see description of talk)

Web services to replace combination of files and sql. E.g. system that can talk from repository to digitisation process or to the catalogue etc. Without an api it would be really complicated to do this. So must think of what should the api do, where is the data coming from?

Example: mobile view of an individual's loans. Without needing to talk directly to the circulation system, it talks to the outside layer via the api and finds the info.

The "revolution", inspired by book "The Lean Startup", start with hypothesis, test it and measure, i.e. build, measure, learn and so on (in a circle - no starting point). At startup, not sure what the end product will be. If you ask users you may not get very far... So from wrong to right: success when requirements are implemented vs success when users use it!

Revolution represented here