Re-Imagining MaStR
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What comes to mind when you see the word Marktstammdatenregister?
“Some German words are so long that they have a perspective.”
— Mark Twain, The Awful German Language (1880)
German language is beautiful, but strengths in overdrive lead to weakness. From beauty to bureaucracy: Marktstammdatenregisterverordnung. “Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum….”
But seriously, the MaStR has enormous potential. If you squint through the greyness you can see what it might be: “MaStR’s mission is to organise Germany’s energy asset information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Why not (with apologies to Google)?
A register of all German assets could develop to become an open, living map of Germany’s energy system.
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