"the open source movement for knowledge graphs"

The line

Jacob, October 2024 (#explainingIdeaflow):

"Starting the open source movement for knowledge graphs, e.g. Open Supply Chains."

Why it works

Takes a stance. The long-arc collective-cognition substrate has to be open, federated, commons-first — or it's just Facebook for graphs.
Names the movement, not just the product. Invites collaboration rather than competition.
Gives a concrete example. Open Supply Chains — a domain with real adoption pain, real need for shared structure, real stakeholders.

Why it matters strategically

The distinction from Semantic Web is important: the 2000s Semantic Web failed on adoption (markup burden). The 2020s version has the LLM tailwind — but will fail again if it builds walled gardens instead of open substrates.

Eden Chan's Munger-frame (2025) extends this: an open graph is also the trust substrate that Munger called the highest form of civilization. Openness isn't just an ethical preference; it's what makes the trust economics work.

Where it sits

Layer: substrate stance (applies to all layers).
Audience: all, with ideological framing.
Register: movement-language. Invokes open source traditions.

What it pairs with

god-data-structure — the maximal structural claim; this framing is the political stance on it.
team-humanity — the humanity-scale application; this is the license it runs under.
neocortex-for-the-global-brain — the anatomy; this is the governance.

Concrete scaffolding

Open Supply Chains — the named example in Jacob's tag, and a working case study for what open-KG governance might look like.
Public curated lists (2025) — small steps toward a public commons of structured knowledge.
Alliance graphs across friends' networks (2025) — user-level federation as a building block.