[ewittern]

We are working on a IBM "catalog" at IBM Research called API Harmony: https://apiharmony-open.mybluemix.net/

One of our goals is to mine information about APIs, rather than relying on user input (hence the "catalog"). We still have a long way to go, though. In Web API land, many things follow a power-law distribution: for a few well-known APIs, a lot of information can be found (https://apiharmony-open.mybluemix.net/apis/instagram). For many other APIs, information is sparse and hard to mine.

Adding Schema.org (or similar) annotations would help. But it may be as hard to convince providers to do this, as it is to convince them to write OpenAPI specifications (or similar).

[Senji]

Having a problem with industry acceptance? Throw the government at it. Either mandate or give tax breaks for following standards that the govt decrees you must meet.

When you can't use the government make a conglomerate of large companies with key hold on industries.