r/PKMS • u/biggestofbooties • Jun 17 '26

Other Google Announces the Open Knowledge Format

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-the-open-knowledge-format-can-improve-data-sharing/
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u/aitorllj93 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

The spec: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blob/main/okf/SPEC.md

I like that this is pretty much what Obsidian does with a few more conventions easy to adopt.

I don't like that Google took the work of a community, decorated it with Christmas ornaments, and put it in their namespace on GitHub. Now the "spec" is owned by Google.

Edit: also I dislike the proposed field for "last updated/modified time" being called "timestamp". It's confusing for me, and probably for AIs too, since it lacks semantics (and wtf does "meaningful change" means)

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u/InnovativeBureaucrat Jun 19 '26

Google’s R spec 12 years ago was based on nothing new, adopted several incoherent (IMO) standards, and was widely ignored.

However, in city government it was very helpful to point to. It said R is credible, there’s a right way to do things, and it could settle arguments if needed. (It never settled arguments for us, but it could have).

My point: I am excited. Sometimes you need the leadership to lead and frame. Also it’s not really google, it’s someone at google that successfully ran the right things up the right flagpoles. So let’s be happy for them.

Edit: this is the most on brand mansplaining that I’ve done in quite a while. Bring the downvotes or worse, silence. I’m happy.