A writable API competition

Got a great idea for O'Reilly's new API? Make it happen and you might win a prize.

In conjunction with the Fluidinfo writable API for O’Reilly books and authors that was announced today, we’re holding a developer competition.

Note: The competition has been extended to 4/17/11.

[Disclosure: Tim O’Reilly is an investor in Fluidinfo.]

Unlike a normal API that provides access to read-only data, a “writable API” is a shorthand for one whose underlying data is openly writable. That’s the fundamental property of Fluidinfo’s data model. We’re very curious to see what developers make of it. In other words, instead of the usual case in which a read-only API is released and programmers are encouraged to simply consume its data or contribute only in anticipated ways, the new API allows programmers to add additional data to the exact same objects that are holding the O’Reilly data, and the new data can be anything at all. There’s no need to stop to ask permission, and there’s no need for anyone to have anticipated what an application writer might want to do.

The writable nature of Fluidinfo-based APIs opens the door to a richer world of data and applications. A single application could add new data and combine it with the existing data. A second application could further enhance and mash up the O’Reilly data and that of the first application, and so on.

To give very simple examples, an application could tag book objects to indicate that a user owns them or is reading them, could add users’ current page numbers, add links to the book elsewhere, or add any other metadata it pleases. Applications can also add tags (with values) to the author objects. These could indicate things like the author’s Twitter name, a link to their profile on LinkedIn, a measure of influence, a tag to show that the author is known by a user or is someone the user would like to meet, etc.

Competition details

While we want you to develop an application however you see fit, we imagine entries will fall into three rough classes. None of these are required in an entry and they are independent of the judging criteria:

  1. Uses of the basic O’Reilly book and author data, such as building a different UI to books and authors.
  2. Interesting data added to the Fluidinfo book and/or author objects. Entries in this class would not build applications.
  3. Mashups of original and new data: add to the original data, and write an application that combines both in a provocative way.

Judges

Entries will be judged by Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly editor Mike Loukides, and O’Reilly GM Joe Wikert.

Prizes

In total, three prizes will be awarded:

  • 1st prize: An OSCON package that includes a full conference pass, coach airfare from within the US, and 4 nights hotel accommodation.
  • 2nd prize: Choice of either one 3G iPad 2 64GB or one Xoom tablet 32GB (second prize includes device only, no wireless service is included).
  • 3rd prize: $500 worth of O’Reilly ebooks and/or videos; selection to be at third prize winner’s discretion.

Deadline

The competition opens today (12:01 a.m. Pacific, March 21, 2011) and runs until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific) April 17, 2011. Winners will be announced on Radar on or around May 1, 2011.

Restrictions

Employees of O’Reilly Media and Fluidinfo are not eligible to enter the competition.

Huge apologies to our international friends, but this contest is OPEN ONLY TO DEVELOPERS WHO ARE LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Our legal folks worked valiantly to include everyone, but rules governing contests in each of your countries have to be followed. In the end they could not conjure up the legal magic necessary to draft rules for each of them; things are sticky enough between the boundaries within the United States. We’re really sorry on this one!

How to enter and get going

Get a Fluidinfo account

You’ll need to create a Fluidinfo account for your application and use its credentials to make calls to the API. If you build an application hosted on its own domain, you can use your domain name as your username in Fluidinfo.

Let the world know you’re entering

As a warm-up exercise in using the Fluidinfo API, we’re going to get you to tag a Fluidinfo object to indicate that you’re entering the competition.

Here’s what you need to do: Suppose your application’s username in Fluidinfo is “myapp.com.” You create a tag named “myapp.com/entry” and put an instance of it onto the Fluidinfo object whose about value is “O’Reilly Fluidinfo API competition.” The value of the tag should be the URL of the home page of your contest entry. If you are just adding book and/or author data to Fluidinfo, the URL you provide should describe the data you’ve added.

The tag therefore serves two purposes: its existence indicates that you’ve entered, and its value points to your entry. Note that your tag must be on the object when the contest closes in order to enter. If it is not, we won’t know you have entered.

The O’Reilly data in Fluidinfo

The details of the Fluidinfo objects holding the O’Reilly book and author data, and the tags on them, are described in a post on the Fluidinfo blog. On the blog you’ll also find a post showing example queries against the O’Reilly API.

You can also take a look at the O’Reilly namespace in the Fluidinfo Explorer (click on the oreilly.com namespace in the left panel to see our top-level tags and the sub-namespaces), and can also look at individual book and author objects. For example here’s the Fluidinfo object for Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition and the object for its author Alex Martelli.

Other tags on O’Reilly book data in Fluidinfo

The O’Reilly book objects also have other tags on them to give you some extra initial material to work with, and also to give you ideas. If you look at the object for Python in a Nutshell mentioned above, you’ll see that as well as lots of oreilly.com tags, it also has tags from Amazon, Google Books, LibraryThing, and Goodreads.

A simple example Chrome extension

There’s also a simple Chrome extension for O’Reilly books. This is intended to illustrate how a browser extension can pull additional information about a book from Fluidinfo and show it to the reader. If you’d like to build a browser extension, you can grab the code from Github and take it from there. If you’re using Chrome, you can install the extension by following these instructions. The Fluidinfo blog has details on how to use it.

Fluidinfo object model and API

You can find out more about the Fluidinfo object model and its API on the developer’s page. You can also often get help in real time by joining the #fluidinfo channel on irc.freenode.net (in fact you can even join the channel with a web-based client right from this web page).

Contest rules

Here’s the fine print.

O’REILLY WRITABLE API CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES

REVISED RULES AS OF 4/8/11 — NOTE NEW END DATE OF 4/17/11.

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. CONTEST OPEN ONLY TO DEVELOPERS WHO ARE LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND OF THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THEIR STATE OF RESIDENCE AT THE TIME OF ENTRY. VOID OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND WHERE OTHERWISE PROHIBITED BY LAW. DO NOT ENTER IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE AND LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME OF ENTRY.

Important: Please read these Official Rules before entering the O’Reilly Writable API Contest (the “Contest”) sponsored by O’Reilly Media, Inc., and Fluidinfo, Inc. (each a “Sponsor”, and collectively “Sponsors”).

1. BINDING AGREEMENT: In order to enter the Contest, you must agree to these Official Rules (“Rules”). Please read these Rules carefully; these Rules will form a legally binding agreement with respect to this Contest and you will be bound by them. You may not submit an Entry (as defined in Section 4 below) unless you agree to these Rules. You agree that participation in this Contest and/or submission of an Entry in the Contest constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to these Rules and Sponsors’ decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest.

2. ELIGIBILITY: Contest open to all developers who are legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, who are located in the United States or the District of Columbia at the time of entry, and who are of the age of majority in their state of residence at the time of entry. Employees, directors and officers of Sponsors, their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, retailers, agents, advertising and promotional agencies, and members of their immediate family (spouse, parents, children, sibling and their respective spouse) are not eligible to participate. Void outside of the United States and where otherwise prohibited by law. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

3. CONTEST DESCRIPTION & GUIDELINES: During the Contest Period, developers have the opportunity to develop their own API (the “Application”) using the Fluidinfo API for O’Reilly books and authors developed by Fluidinfo (http://doc.fluidinfo.com/fluiDB/api/index.html) (“Fluidinfo O’Reilly API”),

Unlike a normal API that provides access to read-only data, a “writable API” is shorthand for one whose underlying data is openly writable. That’s the fundamental property of Fluidinfo’s data model, and we are very curious to see what developers make of the FLUIDINFO O’REILLY API (http://doc.fluidinfo.com/fluiDB/api/index.html). In other words, instead of the usual case in which a read-only API is released and programmers are encouraged to simply consume its data or contribute only in anticipated ways, the new API allows programmers to add additional data to the exact same objects that are holding the O’Reilly data, and the new data can be anything at all. The writable nature of Fluidinfo-based APIs opens the door to a richer world of data and applications. A single application could add new data and combine it with the existing data. A second application could further enhance and mash up the O’Reilly data and that of first application, and so on. To give very simple examples, an application could tag book objects to indicate that a user owns them or is reading them, could add users’ current page numbers, add links to the book elsewhere, or add any other metadata it pleases. Applications can also add tags (with values) to the author objects. These could indicate things like a measure of influence, a tag to show that the author is known by a user or is someone the user would like to meet, etc. While we want you to develop the Application however you see fit, here are some suggestions on what you may want to develop, none of these are required in an entry and are independent of the judging criteria: (a) best use of the basic O’Reilly book and author data (the challenge is to take the O’Reilly book and author data and do something interesting with it – such as building a different UI to books & authors); (b) most interesting data added to the Fluidinfo book and/or author objects (what most interesting data can be added to the Fluidinfo objects that hold the book and author information — this could be something exotic, such as information computed about authors or alternate covers for O’Reilly books), or (c) best mashup of original and new data (how does the application best add new data and present).

  • Create a Fluidinfo Account: To develop your Application, you will need to create a Fluidinfo account for your application and use its credentials make those calls to the API. (Note that if you’re building an application that will have its own domain, you can use your domain name as your username in Fluidinfo.)
  • The O’Reilly data in Fluidinfo: The details of the Fluidinfo objects holding the O’Reilly book and author data, and the tags on them, are described in a post on the Fluidinfo blog (http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo) . You can also see some example command line queries against the API in this post on the Fluidinfo blog. You can also take a look at the O’Reilly namespace in the Fluidinfo Explorer (click on the oreilly.com namespace in the left panel to see our top-level tags and the sub-namespaces), and can also look at individual book and author objects.
  • A simple example Chrome extension: There’s also a simple Chrome extension for O’Reilly books. This is intended to illustrate how a browser extension can pull additional information about a book from Fluidinfo and show it to the reader. If you’d like to build a browser extension, you can fork the code on Github and take it from there.
  • Fluidinfo object model and API: You can find out more about the Fluidinfo object model and its API on Fluidinfo developer’s page. You can also often get help in real time by joining the #fluidinfo channel on irc.freenode.net (in fact you can even join the channel with a web based client right from this web page).

4. HOW TO ENTER: Contest begins at 12:01:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) on March 21, 2011 and will end at 11:59:59 p.m. PT on April 17, 2011 (the “Contest Period”). During the Contest Period, developers may develop their own Applications using the Fluidinfo O’Reilly API. To enter the Contest, please visit the Contest landing page at /2011/03/api-competition.html (the “Website”) and follow the directions on how to enter the Contest and upload your Application on Fluidinfo. You must tag a Fluidinfo object with your application’s username with a value of the URL of the homepage of your entry. If you are only adding book and/or author data to Fluidinfo (as described in these Rules), the URL should describe the data added. The tag must be on the object by 11:59:59 p.m. PT on April 17, 2011 for your entry to be eligible for the Contest. In order to be eligible to win, you must provide all information requested in the Contest Entry Form. The Contest Entry Form, the Application and any other documentation and materials submitted in connection with the Contest will together constitute your entry and are collectively hereinafter referred to as “Entry”. Automated Entries are prohibited, and any use of automated devices will cause disqualification. Entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. PT on April 17, 2011 to be eligible for the Contest. You may enter as many times as you wish, but please do not submit duplicate or substantially similar Applications.

All entrants must have a valid email address. Should multiple users of the same e-mail account enter the Contest and a dispute thereafter arise regarding the identity of the entrant, the entrant shall be deemed to be the Authorized Account Holder. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization which is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses or the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Please see the privacy policy located at http://oreilly.com/oreilly/privacy.csp for details of Sponsors’ policy regarding the use of personal information collected in connection with this Contest. Entries must be in English. Each Entry must be the original work of the submitting entrant; created solely by the submitting entrant, must not have been submitted in any other competition and won previous awards; must not have been previously published or marketed; must not infringe third-party rights of any third party, including but not limited to copyright, trademark and right of privacy and publicity, and must be suitable for publication (i.e., not be obscene or indecent). If any Application contains any material or elements that are not owned by the entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties, the entrant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the licensing, use, and exhibition of the Application. By submitting an Entry in the Contest, you hereby warrant and represent that your Entry conforms to the entry requirements set forth herein. Sponsors reserve the right to waive the Contest entry requirements set forth herein in their reasonable discretion. Any waiver of any obligation hereunder by Sponsors do not constitute a general waiver of any obligation to entrants. Sponsors reserve the right, in their reasonable discretion, during or upon completion of the Contest Period, to request that any entrant resubmit his or her Entry which fails to comply with the Contest entry requirements prior to any judging.

5. WINNERS SELECTION: All Entries will be judged by a qualified panel of experts who are employees of Sponsors (“Judges”). Eligible Entries shall be judged by the Judges based equally on the following criteria: (1) overall appeal; (2) overall creativity; (3) innovation of quality and features; and (4) overall usability. The entrant with the Application that receives the highest total score among all judging criteria will be the potential First Prize Winner, subject to verification. The next entrant with the Application with the next highest score will be the Second Prize Winner subject to verification, and the next entrant with the Application with the next highest score will be the Third Prize Winner subject to verification. In the event of a tie, tie breaker will be based upon the highest score in the first judging criteria, continuing thereafter to each judging criteria in order, as needed, to break the tie.

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7. PRIZES: One (1) First Prize Winner, One (1) Second Prize Winner and One (1) Third Prize Winner will each receive the following:

First Prize Winner (1): First prize winner will receive a trip to the O’Reilly 2011 OSCON Conference to held on July 25-29, 2011 in Portland, Oregon. Prize includes round-trip, coach class air transportation for First Prize Winner from a major commercial airport near First Prize Winner’s home within the U.S. to Portland International Airport in Oregon; one (1) double occupancy standard hotel room for four (4) nights; one (1) Full Conference Pass. Approximate retail value (“ARV”): $3,500. Actual value of trip may vary based on point of departure and airfare fluctuations. Any difference between stated approximate retail value and actual value of First Prize will not be awarded. Selection of airline and hotel are solely within Sponsor’s discretion. Meals, gratuities, luggage fees, incidental hotel charges and any other travel-related expenses not specified herein are the sole responsibility of First Prize Winner. All travel must be taken on dates specified or First Prize will be forfeited and may be awarded to an alternate winner; no alternative travel dates are available. Exact travel dates and arrangements subject to availability. First Prize Winner must have all necessary identification and/or travel documents (e.g., a valid U.S. driver’s license) required for travel. Airline tickets are non-refundable/non-transferable and are not valid for upgrades and/or frequent flyer miles. All airline tickets are subject to flight variation, work stoppages, and schedule or route changes. If in the judgment of Sponsor, air travel is not required due to winner’s proximity to Portland, Oregon, ground transportation will be substituted for roundtrip air travel at Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion. The difference in value will not be awarded to the First Prize winner. Sponsor shall not be responsible for any cancellations, delays, diversions or substitution or any act or omissions whatsoever by the air carriers, hotels, venue operators, transportation companies, prize providers or any other persons providing any First Prize-related services or accommodations. Additional prize award details and travel information to be provided to the First Prize winner at the time of notification. First Prize winner is also responsible for obtaining travel insurance (and all other forms of insurance) at his/her option and hereby acknowledges that Sponsor has not and will not obtain or provide travel insurance or any other form of insurance. Lost, stolen or damaged airline tickets, travel vouchers or certificates will not be replaced or exchanged.

Second Prize Winner (1) will receive a choice of either one 3G iPad 2 64GB or one Xoom tablet 32GB (Second Prize includes device only, no wireless service is included). ARV of Second Prize is $800.

Third Prize Winner (1) will receive $500.00 worth of O’Reilly ebooks and/or videos, selection to be at Third Prize Winner’s discretion. ARV of prize is $500.

Total ARV of all prizes: US $4,800. All prizes amounts are in US dollars. ARV is as of the date of printing of these Rules. The difference in the value of the prize as stated herein and value at time of prize notification, if any, will not be awarded. Prizes are not transferable. No cash redemptions. No substitutions or exchanges of the prizes will be permitted, except that Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value for any prize that becomes unavailable for any reason. The prizes are awarded “as is” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose). Acceptance or use of Prizes is at Winners’ own risk. All federal, state, and local taxes are the responsibility of the winner. Limit one (1) prize per person/household. Prize winners may be issued an IRS 1099 form.

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