PIMPS interface and the API toolkit

'Put In Many Places and Syndicate'(PIMPs) interface and the API toolkit.

One of the project philosophies was to make the process of putting educational resources in the open domain and enabling people to find them as easy as possible (see process diagram below). Many social media services (i.e. Flickr, Twitter, YouTube) provide APIs and our toolkit makes use of these by creating a mashup.

An Application Programming Interface (API) toolkit was developed to present end users with a simple web form interface that allowed them to efficiently distribute and syndicate ER (and their associated metadata) to multiple social networking sites (see below).

The API toolkit differentiates between the resource formats to be uploaded such as images, videos, etc. and automatically puts the resources into the relevant social media site(s). In addition, resources are added to JorumOpen as a batch RSS feed harvest.