> This is my roman empire

Haven't heard this said before, but is this a reference to how often men think about Rome? That's very amusing.

RDF is my Roman empire. It's the original and best Web 3: open-world knowledge graphs. It feels like if the ecosystem around that developed better, it would provide a way to interchange data without having to do Big Standards Up Front.

Any org could publish data under their own schemas, communities could start to converge on the most helpful ones, provide translations between terms, and gradually things would evolve, without having to all agree first. RDF provides a baseline for interop, on top of which specific worlds of knowledge can evolve.

I work in solar software too and every day I am sad that manufacturers provide their datasheets as PDFs. Not even Excel files.

> I'm genuinely shocked that the electrical grid works. And the more I learn about how it works, the more shocked I become.

Amen to that.