Consumer Gadget 2.0 API
Consumer Gadget just turned into a construction site. This spring we will introduce Consumer Gadget 2.0 API, which allows anyone to access Consumer Gadget information. Until the new version is ready, consumergadget.org will be very unstable.
The information model will separate "legal entities" from other content. Legal entities model the real world where we live in. Every product, company, geographical area or person is a legal entity. They can be linked together into a network, which can be used for example to understand "where the money flows".
This "legal entity framework" has nothing to do with ethical information. Ethical information is just added on top of this framework. I hope the same framework can be used by similar projects, which add information on top of "the real world".
Addressing legal entities is very intersting question. What is a link between virtual and physical reality? With Consumer Gadget, EAN barcodes are essential, but also stock exchange codes or simple keywords can act as links to virtual legal entities. Very interesting link to real world is GPS coordinates -- every location on Earth is a legal entity, that someone owns.
But now I have to learn how to install new versions of Debian, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
The information model will separate "legal entities" from other content. Legal entities model the real world where we live in. Every product, company, geographical area or person is a legal entity. They can be linked together into a network, which can be used for example to understand "where the money flows".
This "legal entity framework" has nothing to do with ethical information. Ethical information is just added on top of this framework. I hope the same framework can be used by similar projects, which add information on top of "the real world".
Addressing legal entities is very intersting question. What is a link between virtual and physical reality? With Consumer Gadget, EAN barcodes are essential, but also stock exchange codes or simple keywords can act as links to virtual legal entities. Very interesting link to real world is GPS coordinates -- every location on Earth is a legal entity, that someone owns.
But now I have to learn how to install new versions of Debian, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
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