Developer day may 2013 notes
- 1. •Attendees NRE Chris Scoggins, Derek Parlour and Jason Webb. •Developers Jonathan Raper, Pascal Simplice, Dave Addey, Peter Hicks, Jonathan Tilley. •NRE ran through the presentations giving an overview of NRE, their development roadmap and services offered. •Areas of specific discussion include: NRE – Developer Day Notes 22-05-13
- 2. •Definition of a dataset as opposed to a service. There was a view by one attendee that as Darwin produces information it is a dataset. Raw data is collected whereas something like Darwin takes that raw data and uses a considerable amount of IP to create processed information. An ongoing service is needed to make it real time. •NRE pointed out that there are several real time train information services in the U.K. •The level of data in the LDB webservice was questioned and NRE agreed to look at the viability of adding in calling points. NRE – Developer Day Notes 22-05-13
- 3. •There was a request for access to other NRE services such as staff versions. •There was a feeling from developers that the ORR involvement had run its course and it would be beneficial to all if the matter was left to the market. •There was a comment about how difficult it was to get access to push port but NRE pointed out the issues and also clarified that there were already push port licences in effect. •There was a request for NRE to put links to 3rd party developers apps on the NRE website. NRE – Developer Day Notes 22-05-13
- 4. •A number of other requests came up that were outside of NRE systems (routeing guide and fares) and NRE suggested people contact RSP for these. •There was clarification from NRE that they did indeed pay for much of the data that goes into Darwin. •There were questions asked about 3rd party customer feedback on errors. NRE suggested that in the first instance these could be directed to the NRE feedback channels. NRE – Developer Day Notes 22-05-13
- 5. •Push notifications was raised again and NRE said they would look at a possible commercial model for this but did say that it may not be made available to 3rd parties. • There was interest in the subscription model and NRE have sent out details to the developer who wanted to explore this. •NRE also undertook to look at station codes in the disruption XML and looking at JSON format for services. •Next Developer Day planned for September. NRE – Developer Day Notes 22-05-13