We have this overall sense that "markdown is eating the world" in the sense that it is becoming a more and more ubiquitous and powerful format. What i would term "markdown plus" i.e. markdown plus extensions like frontmatter, wikilinks, typed backtick blocks you have something really pretty expressive - and add MDX and you have full JS(X) components.
At least, for reasonably small use cases (think under a 1000 items), this makes a collection of markdown files a great basis for a whole bunch of use cases from a document database to a PKM etc.
I take the point and perhaps one could think about what is useful to the "middle ground" of the uninitiated e.g. the policy-makers looking for some guidance, the journalists trying to make sense of the claims and counter-claims.
What we're trying to do here is set out the claims clearly (and atomically) and evaluate them in as transparent and honest a manner as possible. So far I've not seen this a lot on the internet despite the huge amount of material on this topic.
I am less concerned about the consumption, but the issue how much available wind energy we can harness in a best case scenario. Only half of transportation seems so low.
> It showed how one should do a systems analysis for a country to understand how one can achieve the change required. I was astonished when I talked to several of the leading people responsible for energy policy in several political parties in my country, to find they really had no clue about what they where doing on a systems level.
Massive +1. And i agree that perhaps "reusing" the book would be useful. E.g. take the key factual approach and update analyses for particular technologies and then plug those together - which to some extent is what the pathway calculator did which is why it is worth trying to get the source for that https://github.com/life-itself/climate/issues/2
Thanks Niall - updating the book is exactly what we are hoping to do and still thinking the best form for that. Re that tool i've been in correspondence with one of the other creators re trying to understand the source code etc - see https://github.com/life-itself/climate/issues/2
Interesting. There have been a lot of attempts at "meta data portals" that search across portals. Most of them have struggled.
At Open Knowledge we built a really early one called opendatasearch.org in 2011/2012 - now defunct - and were involved in the first version of the pan EU open data portal. We also had the original https://ckan.net/ (and subsites) which is now https://datahub.io/ and has become much more focused on quality data and data deployment. [Disclosure: I was/am involved in many of these projects]
The challenge, as others have mentioned, is that data quality is very variable and searching for datasets is complicated (think of software as an analogy - searching for good code libraries is a bit of an art).
I imagine Google are trying this out before making datasets another "special type" of search result -- after all you can already search google for datasets. In addition, Google are already Google so including datasets will have a level of comprehensiveness and exposure you struggle with elsewhere (part of the power of monopoly in a sense!).
