Community Newsletter
This is an ongoing project to produce a newsletter about API specifications. It is crowdsources via a Github repository and is designed to showcase all the resource areas highlighted as part of the API Specification Toolbox (ie. specifications, extensions, news, services, tools, sectors, videos, and projects).
Find New Videos
We need to spend a regular amount of time keeping an eye out for interesting videos about API specifications and aggregate them here, tagging and organizing them so people can tune in. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual tools and other tasks conducted via GitHub issues.
JSON Schema Documentation Update
This is a project to update the JSON Schema documentation and provide up to date information for users of the specification to learn from. Making sure there is documentation to support the latest version of JSON Schema, while also supporting other implementations in OpenAPI and AsyncAPI. This work will be conducted via the existing documentation Github repository, and we are actively looki...
Measuring the Value of the OAS Ecosystem in Open Banking and Open Finance
To map the ecosystem of Open Banking and Open Finance APIs that use the OpenAPI Initiative’s OpenAPI Specification (OAS) and demonstrate the value and benefits of the OAS for the banks, customers, developers, FinTech, the underserved, and the API industry. If you'd like to see a full copy of the proposal please email contacts below and we can share the full proposal.
OAI Membership Engagement
This is a project to engage with OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) membership and increase their representation and participation within the OAI and the OpenAPI community. We are working on a variety of ways in which we can get OAI members involved with not just OpenAPI, but other specifications, make it a perfect API Specification Toolbox project. This was one of the first things identified as bei...
Podcasts
This is a project to develop podcasts about API specifications. Helping showcase and develop podcasts with different individuals in the space. Providing a regular stream of conversations about API specifications that people can tune into. Like other projects this is being developed via Github, so if you want to get involved head over to the Github repo for the project and get involved.
Profiling API Business Sectors
This is a project to continue profiling and adding different business sectors to the API Specification Toolbox, providing an accurate accounting of all of the different business sectors that are available which put the API specifications to work. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual t...
Profiling API Extensions
This is a project to continue profiling and adding extensions to the API Specification Toolbox, providing an accurate accounting of all of the API specification extensions being applied across the sector. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual extensions and other tasks conducted via Gi...
Profiling API News
This is a project to continue profiling news to the API Specification Toolbox, providing more access to news about API specifications. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual tools and other tasks conducted via GitHub issues.
Profiling API People
This is a project to continue profiling and adding commercial people to the API Specification Toolbox, providing an accurate accounting of all of the interesting API people that are available which put the variety of API specifications to work. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual peo...
Profiling API Services
This is a project to continue profiling and adding commercial services to the API Specification Toolbox, providing an accurate accounting of all of the commercial API services that are available which put the variety of API specifications to work. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual ...
Profiling API Tools
This is a project to continue profiling and adding commercial tools to the API Specification Toolbox, providing an accurate accounting of all of the commercial API tools that are available which put the variety of API specifications to work. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual tools ...
Propaganda Posters
This is a project to create propaganda posters for API specifications. It would be nice to have motivational and inspirational posters that help folks get behind API specifications for meaningful purposes. Like other projects we are using Github to manage efforts around this work, and if you want to get involved feel free to submit a Github issue or send email to [email protected].
Quantifying Scope of API Specification Community
It can be tough to understand the scope of how API specifications are used. When on-boarding new users to the concept of OpenAPI, JSON Schema, or AsyncAPI, I often get asked about how big the OpenAPI or other community is, and I don't have any solid numbers on the scope of it even though I know it is big. This is a project to help quantify the scope of OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, and P...
Unique API ID
This is a project to establish a directory of unique identifiers for public APIs, providing a single unique identifier for each API available on the web using a commonly agreed upon structure. This is an open source effort between Postman, API Evangelist, and TeejLabs to help further stabilize the indexing and discovery of APIs across the ecosystem.
Video Interviews
This is a project to develop video interviews about API specifications from a variety of individuals. Providing a regular stream of video content that can be showcased here on the site and syndicated to other locations. Like all projects here, this is being managed via GitHub, and you can visit the Github repo to get involved.
White Papers
This is an ongoing project to create different white papers around the specifications, different stops along the API lifecycle, or any other relevant topic. The goal is to incentivize the researching, writing, editing, publishing, and syndication of useful white papers that will help people understand the potential of API specifications.
Workshops
This is an ongoing project to develop workshops on API specifications, helping provide education for the community. The goal is to help aggregate and drive workshops from a variety of providers, and organize them into a single calendar that can be drive as part of this toolbox website. If you want to get
Write Blog Posts
This is a project to help drive the creation of new and interesting blog content for publishing either on this blog, or publish to other specification, service, or tooling maker blogs. This work is all being managed via a single GitHub repository, with an overview of the work on the README, and the discussion around individual tools and other tasks conducted via GitHub issues.