Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a data representation of the structure of an electrical system or network. Wireless tags, such as RFID tags, near field communication tags, and other short-range wireless communication technologies, are used to uniquely identify discrete components of the electrical network, and user-provided metadata is associated with each tag, generally using a software application on a smart device which is in communication with the tags. Metadata necessarily includes the links between tags. The smart device communicates with a data server to create, update, and retrieve the user-supplied data to and from a remote storage system.