API best practices references

This list contains a comprehensive set of documents that describe best practices, recommendations and guidelines collected all over the world (mainly from and for the public sector) analysed within the APIs4DGov study. Each document is classified accordingly to the following rationale: - Location: the country or the area where the document is to be applied - Author: author of the document - Year: year of publication - Title: short description of the document - Link: URL of the document - Topic: specific field the document is about - Author type: academic (university, research centre, etc.); consortium (or non profit); expert (individual expert); international organisation; journalist; private company; public administration (government or other public institution) - Target sector: intended audience of the document (public sector, private sector or both) - Target level: (API) strategic, tactical (organisational), operational (implementation) - Area: international, European, national, regional, city - Focus: specific (specific document on APIs); general (general purpose document, e.g. ICT strategy) - Document: source of the document (government GitHub repository, official publication, commercial (private sector), vendor white paper, journal paper, presentation, blog, website) - Type: best practice, recommendation, guideline