{"id":4468,"date":"2016-05-06T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/en\/?page_id=4468"},"modified":"2018-07-09T00:41:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T22:41:56","slug":"open-education-api","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/projects\/open-education\/open-education-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Education API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The educational system in the Netherlands is complex, and many public bodies are tasked with keeping schools and students on the right track. However, data regarding this task is made available to the general public in a way it is not easily processable, which makes checks by the public (and press) more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/api.openonderwijsdata.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Onderwijs API<\/a> alleviates this problem by providing a unified interface to data on education collected from <a href=\"http:\/\/api.openonderwijsdata.nl\/documentation\/rst\/introduction.html#currently-included-data\" target=\"_blank\">several institutions<\/a> with different responsibilities with regard to the Dutch educational system.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/api.openonderwijsdata.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Onderwijs API<\/a> is built on open source technology, Scrapy, Sphinx for the documentation, and ElasticSearch for efficient data storage and retrieval. Also, all school addresses are geocoded using the BAG42 service, an Dutch initiative aiming to integrate high quality, official data sources with \u201cregular\u201d geocoding. Data is available through a simple REST <a href=\"http:\/\/api.openonderwijsdata.nl\/documentation\/rst\/api.html\" target=\"_blank\">API<\/a> and as downloadable tarrballs and exposes powerful search capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/openstate.mu.openstate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-15.54.59.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-06 at 15.54.59\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-15.54.59.png 1207w, https:\/\/openstate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-15.54.59-558x410.png 558w, https:\/\/openstate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-15.54.59-422x310.png 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1207px) 100vw, 1207px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The educational system in the Netherlands is complex, and many public bodies are tasked with keeping schools and students on the right track. However, data regarding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/projects\/open-education\/open-education-api\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4472,"parent":115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,115],"tags":[18,222,223,225,47,221,224],"class_list":["post-4468","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-education-data","category-tool","tag-api","tag-education","tag-onderwijs","tag-ood","tag-open-data","tag-open-onderwijs","tag-openonderwijs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4468\/revisions\/4474"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}