STM publisher Springer recently concluded its API Challenge 2.0, and announced the winners of the competition. The challenge asked programmers to create new and original non-commercial applications that use Springer's metadata and content APIs. The goal is to offer users new and novel ways of finding, visualising and/or manipulating relevant data drawn from Springer’s large and growing content database.
After submissions were made, an interdisciplinary panel of judges evaluated the submitted works, ranking them on three categories: creativity and originality, user experience and design, and value and benefit. Winners took home $8,000, $4,000 and $2,000, for first, second and third place, respectively.
Metadata for more than 4.8 million documents from Springer journals, books and protocols was made available to the participants. Also available were full-text content, metadata and images for approximately 80,000 open access articles from BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. The awarded applications are now freely available to end users for one year.
Springer APIs make Springer data available to approved third parties via a secure software interface, enabling third parties to build applications with Springer data.
