Keynote: Code and Clothes: How Open Data is Helping to Fix Fashion
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 · on Wednesday, 2019-10-30· at 09:25· Amphitheatre·
summary
A neutral, open-source registry maps garment facilities and assigns an industry-specific unique ID so disparate databases can be linked; fuzzy matching using the Python library Dedupe drops matching time from seven hours to under four minutes, and a PostGIS/Django stack serving vector tiles displays tens of thousands of sites efficiently. Live seven months, the Open Apparel Registry API already helps trace brands tied to labor actions — enabling investigations that recover jobs for ~1,000 Cambodian workers, track 12,000 sacked in Bangladesh, and secure back pay and repatriation in Mauritius.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Fashion industry crisis
- 1:02Fashion’s social impact
- 3:52Environmental harm and supply chains
- 7:05Open Apparel Registry
- 9:20Open-source solutions
- 15:21Real-world impact cases
- 17:31How to contribute
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