How the State of Israel Is Bringing Its Analog History to the Web - The Atlantic The blog's part of a larger effort to digitize all of Israel's analog
state records. But to do that, they must first limit and grapple with
their data set, by making a list of every Israeli government
position and the functions of each. This is something that's never been
done, as "the various levels of officialdom [might] fulfill some 100,000
functions." The whole process recalls a programmer's method, going
through and defining all the functions it's possible to call before
being able to use any of them.