Yes. I know data can mean anything that was bits. I mean less textual, like meeting notes, and more things like spreadsheets, essentially, and tabular data.
I mean more on the data, rather than textual stuff, so more CSVs. I absolutely...
I’m a programmer, myself, so I understand all those issues.
You know this one, but things like that. I also wonder how are you finding it, getting people to produce high quality CSV data and to produce good metadata, be it data package, or otherwise? You don’t find that a problem?
CSV, the decked one, would be least exciting. If you go to the Specifications at the top and pick, for example, Data Package Specifications, that’s the one you probably want to look at.
You mentioned using CSVs. That’s, obviously, one of the things that we’ve put a lot of time into thinking about. One is that CSV’s an incredibly easy to consume format that most people use.
You might want to bring it up, if you don’t mind. One of the things they are about is the data package model. I don’t know whether you guys are using that at all.
One of the projects I’ve been involved in, I don’t know if you know, it’s the Frictionless Data. You know about that, then, the Frictionless Data stuff?
One of the questions would be about, then, in terms of your data. One of the things I see with a lot of open data projects ‑‑ I’ve been involved in many, obviously ‑ is data quality.
Got you. It makes a lot of sense. That’s super impressive in the sense of how it is joined up. It’s great to see, over the years, how things are getting really polished and standardized.
Because, for example, in the UK that doesn’t really exist.
One of the questions, I suppose, then, mostly when I’ve seen other countries, one of the big challenges of doing what you just showed me with the project stuff is having the data linked up that way. Is that already there in Taiwan’s government budget? It already has that level ...
A couple questions. One is are you guys building the platform? Who’s building this Join platform?
That’s fantastic.
No, you can show me it, as well.
I haven’t, no.
That will be of value.
Yes, I understand.
Hopes and fears, yeah.
And opportunities.
What are issues or what are you really interested in at the moment or are you seeing as challenges that are coming up? What I’m interested in, my overlap, that’s what it is.
I guess what we could start with is I’d love to hear a little bit from you, really, about what’s on your mind lately.
I think it was great. I know the audience was already selected on the basis they could understand English, but if I could improve my Chinese, it would make a big difference.
I hope in a year’s time when I come back, I’m practicing quite heavily, that I would maybe be up to giving a lecture in Chinese. That would be a bit ambitious. [laughs] I went to Tianjin yesterday and gave a talk to the city government there.
Excellent, excellent. This is fine. It’s really good. The trip has been good so far. I’ve been in Taiwan now for nearly two weeks, actually over Chinese New Year. My Chinese skills are gradually developing. I can now order some food and things.
I normally record myself too, but you guys are going to record it, right?
