Discovering the German Public Sector APIs : the full analysis

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Germany hosts a lot of public data but not many proper APIs: roughly ~1000 raw files live on portals, Berlin exposes ~250 datasets and Hamburg ~100, while only about 60–70 real machine‑readable endpoints exist for things like autobahn infrastructure. Most services are CSV/Excel on GitHub or portal downloads, so community teams build dashboards, job‑search prototypes and scrape‑based apps that partially work. An “open by design, by default” policy exists on paper but exceptions and inconsistent metadata keep large‑scale API reuse fragile.

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1. 0:00German public sector APIs
2. 1:08Open data history in Germany
3. 3:42Early open data challenges
4. 5:35Current open data portals
5. 7:54Government transparency efforts
6. 10:41Key government projects
7. 13:26Structured data initiatives
8. 15:41Public sector data on social media
9. 17:41Data-driven application case studies
10. 19:16Labor market data challenges
11. 21:06Future of public sector APIs
12. 23:09Community updates
13. 25:24Conclusion

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