It was linking to the registry. The thing that it links is not the core yet because it’s not yet curated.
The GDP one?
You’re right, by the way. This is the US.
I see.
Like this?
There’s a text file here that describes all the core data sets.
[laughs]
It’s there.
...core data packages...
...and find whatever. Then you can also see what’s a valid GDP value. Now that you know the country code has to be part of the iso-3-geo-codes/id geo codes.
You can store it in everything...
[laughs] It should be self‑descriptive. As you can see the existing github tooling is happy with that.
Because it’s progressive. Right?
Sure. Let’s look at the CSV.
It’s OK. If you speak JavaScript or SQL all of us also understand.
Yeah, of course.
You want to project this out?
Sure, of course.
Also allocations.
I’m interested in your book, also. If you want to develop some thoughts, I can help philosophizing, too.
So that’s actually a good case we can talk about.
There’s many dimensions of that operation, and the kick‑off meeting is at 2:00 PM.
Also, we need to somehow demonstrate that it’s better if you open‑source the part of code which may suffer from performance problems, rather than keeping it tied to proprietary DBs and and throwing more hardware at it.
That is actually a good, concrete example to talk about, because that would involve merging two established governmental units, at least their front‑end websites, together, and establishing a common data exchange pipeline around disaster data.
2:00 PM today, we’re going to design one of the larger common API — not with the OpenAPI spec — but a common, standard‑based refactoring of our national disaster response systems.
OK.
If we can solve the DDL Data Package generation together, that will be great technologically.
Real pleasure.
Thank you. [laughs]
Definitely. It was so good to meet you.
Globally of course. Especially In Europe.
Is the much stronger one.
What I’m saying is that, historically in Taiwan and around East Asia, the innovation part...
ESR wanted to argue that open source makes better innovation. Period. But the FSF doesn’t like this argument because they want to focus on equality of access and software freedom.
However, for the current generation... [laughs] That’s the old argument between Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman.
Innovation. Here that word sometimes implies something competitive. It’s part of our education curriculum. We’re fixing that.
Because people here are...
In Taiwan, it’s maybe not the best angle.
Many people base their argument on solving inequality, which is I think the main motivation for your speech.
Governance, even. What I’m trying to say here is that this is what everybody agrees, that we’ll get here.
I don’t see myself as a government person. [laughs]
Sure. Let me just say a final thing.
No problem.
We just wasn’t sure who else is coming.
Our youth councilors, too. They may be interested.
Because we have some informal connections to young public servants who focus very much on this thing.
Who’s coming?
This Saturday? 10 till 5:00.
That’s our public system architect, designer and everything.
Opendata.tw. Here is his contact.
