register systems for government
Stef Joosten builds register systems for government organisations that want to leave their spreadsheets behind.
An administration spread over dozens of spreadsheets that nobody oversees any more, updated by hand with every change in the law. That is the situation in which organisations call me. I turn it into a register system that guards its own rules, so that the data agrees with reality and with the law.
Situations in which organisations call me
- Nobody oversees our spreadsheets any moreThen I turn those spreadsheets into one register system, which keeps the data and guards the rules about it.
- We process every change in the law by handThen the rules from the law live in the register system itself, and the system shows which data no longer comply.
- We want a register that guards its own rulesI build such a register in Ampersand, an open language in which a rule about data has exactly one meaning.