1. ONS API Progress / Plans July 2010 Census Web Services Working Group

2. Web Development Programme Series of functional releases (FR1-4) New website planned for early 2011 Read API central to the solution, and enabling other parties to re-use and re- purpose ONS content Initial FR1 Beta API provided to Nomis for testing and feedback

3. High level indicative API plan

4. What was in FR1? The foundations of the system using Apache CXF, Jax-RS and CORD components In FR1, we only have datasets held in a copy of CORD (relational database). Definitions (e.g. codelists) and data slices can be extracted using the API Supported formats are SDMX, HTML and CSV (others to follow) Rudimentary discovery functions

5. Nomis Testing of API