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I have no knowledge of the field, so apologizes in advance if this idea does not make sense.

Would it be possible to make a compromise here? Perhaps by maintaining the decentralized structure, but at the same time introducing standards to categorize data on a global level and allow it to be 'mined' by a centralized entity that has API access to this data. Kind of like Google does indexing and searching, just with more cooperation of those being indexed.

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Yes, this is kinda what I wanted to propose. An umbrella organization that would make an infrastructure using which it would be possible to query, index and integrate data acros the web. And I am not running away from decentralized structure or infrastructure.

Glad to see that I got the idea after all.

As I've said I'm no expert, but I'd be interested to use a project like this to learn more about the field and to find ways to contribute. Atm, I can help setup the initial infrastructure for the project and cover the AWS costs for the first few months until you get some funding. Feel free to reach out if you think this could help, email is in my profile.

Have you ever looked at the sadiframework? The HCLS W3C note on data set descriptions is also a good starting point.

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