> [!tldr] Google trying to standardize what [[Obsidian]]'s done for years Google has laid claim to a new "standard" they're calling "Open Knowledge Format". It's basically just a slightly stricter subset of [[Obsidian]]'s default structure. [[Frontmatter]] + [[Markdown]]. To be fair, they cite Obsidian a bunch of times in the spec. The only *real* requirement (apparently) is a frontmatter field called `type`. They also reserve the names `index.md` and `log.md`. # Why According to the Google, this pattern is A) well established from tools like [[Obsidian]], [[Notion]], etc, and that it works really well for [[Examples of Particularly Good Encapsulations of Information|encapsulating knowledge]] in a self-contained way for both human-readability and [[Large Language Models]]. **** # More ## Source - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-the-open-knowledge-format-can-improve-data-sharing/ - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/tree/main/toolbox/mdcode/demo