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A comprehensive, global, open source database of power plants
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Plant Type field #2

Open loganbyers opened 6 years ago

loganbyers commented 6 years ago

Description

Plant Type: categorical Possession/usage of a set of technological implementations for generating, capturing, and transforming energy into electricity.

Possible Steps

  1. Define vocabulary
    1. Acquire list of all technology terms used across open (and closed) datasets
    2. Dedup and cluster terms
    3. Define the vocabulary & thesauruses
  2. ETL

Possible Data Sources

[TODO]

Challenges

Need to define a schema or vocabulary for all possible plant types. Yet another standard syndrome.

Additional Info

keywords: tech, technology