During Office Hours, DH Developer Douglas Duhaime led an informal, live coding session during which he walked through approaches to requesting data from historical and bibliographic APIs. He discussed the process of building up and sending queries algorithmically, as well as parsing results in both JSON and XML formats. Together, participants practiced on the Google Books API and the Wikipedia API, two valuable resources for researchers working with various digital materials.

All were welcome; no prior programming experience was required. Coffee and tea were provided.

Instructor: Douglas Duhaime (DHLab)

Photos from the event:

<img src=”http://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/resize/images/IMG_0496%281%29-223x223.JPG” alt: DHLab worker demonstrates software to several seated attendees in a wide image that also captures the DHLab ceiling and library./>

<img src=”http://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/resize/images/IMG_0497%282%29-300x225.JPG” alt: DHLab worker answers student question in Lab cubicle area./>