Integrate Data and Metadata
Focus your time and resources on delivering results or friendly user interfaces, not data wrangling or struggling with proprietary systems.
How Rich Data Services Makes Your Life Easier
On-Demand Queryable Data
Whether you need to retrieve record level data or compute aggregated tables, the results are just a simple API call away. Rich Data Services offers flexible ways to query the data, and takes care of performance and other technical challenges behind the scenes.
Cut Development Time
Developers should not have to be concerned with database integration or complex format conversions. Rich Data Services delivers the data and metadata in standard JSON, or open data packages ready for immediate import in analytical software and databases.
Data in Your Language
Whether you are a software developer or a data scientist, as long as your favorite coding environment can talk to a REST based service, you can use Rich Data Services. Our open source libraries make it even easier for popular frameworks like R, Python, or JavaScript.
Developer Resources
API Specifications
Consult our standard API specifications to familiarize yourself with the various methods and options, or use the Swagger file for to generate code or other purposes.
Swagger Docs
API Documentation
Follow the link below for additional documentation, examples, and stories around the Rich Data Services API.
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Open Source Libraries
Accessing data and metadata over an industry standard REST API is nice and easy. It becomes trivial when using our open source libraries, available for popular development and research environments. Visit our GitHub project sites below for details, and get started within minutes.
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Learn by Example
Nothing better than exciting storytelling examples to see how this all comes together. Follow the links below to see demos and code snippets leveraging our open source libraries.
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Data Publishers
Rich Data Services makes it easy to connect to, document, and publish data in a way that it is discoverable and ready for delivery to researchers and developers.
Learn MoreResearchers
The Rich Data Services Explorer and Tabulation engine make it easy to explore and subset record level data, run tabulations and linear regression, download data and documentation for offline use.
See FeaturesDevelopers
Rich Data Services was designed with developers and data scientists in mind, and is accompanied by API documentation, open source libraries, and examples to get you started.
Developer Resources