My experience in this sort of thing is nil, but I am
a student of history and attempts to standardize
humans never brings any good.
Obamacare makes Hillarycare look positively workable,
You’d have thought Kerry could have at least given
him some tips...
Witness our first attempt at it: The standardization of firearms, followed by successes in standardizing railroads, telegraph signals, and then manufacturing in general (Henry Ford being the most prominent example). Standardizing data is the next logical step, and it escapes me why this has not been undertaken before now. We've made half-hearted stabs at the concept, but .. what we need is a Data Revolution, like the Industrial Revolution was.