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There are two code platforms I’m active on. One is run by a multi‑billion‑dollar cooperation, one is run by a small association belonging to its members, including me. Sadly I am way more active on the multi‑billion‑dollar cooperation platform. I want to change that. So with the Digital Indepenence Days I wanted to move something to the nice, community driven platform. Here’s how I…
Work in Progress This text documents the work to transform power grid infrastructure data from OpenStreetMaps to the Common Information Model (CIM) using linkml. Source Data: The source data is available on zenodo . It is documented in this paper and comes in the data format from Pypsa, a power system modeling tool. The Common Information Model - CIM is a data model for all kind of data relevant…
The Common Information Model is a data model used within the electric utility industry. Learning it is not something I would phrase beginner-friendly, hence I’m documenting my advances here. This post is an ongoing effort to document the Common Information Model. It summarizes my learnings and collects useful links. Purpose of the CIM The Idea is simple: If all the data of the electricity…
With their recent blog post Highlighting journalism on Mastodon , the creators of Mastodon announced incredibly awesome. From version 4.3.0 onwards, authors of blog posts and articles can be directly visible below shared links on Mastodon. If you write something interesting and someone shares this link on the fediverse, people will see your profile linked to the article. This is a great feature…
I recently migrated my personal website from a React template to a Hugo PaperMod site. This decision was motivated by the simplicity Hugo offers: creating a clean, functional site without the need to write and maintain extensive HTML or JavaScript code. However, when I wanted to add my list of publications, I ran into a challenge. Initially, Hugo seemed to only support Markdown files, which meant…