Tag: Essence

  • Essences & Trees

    We use tags in 2 configurations, Essences and Trees.

    Essences are similar to breadcrumbs, but not required to be hierarchical. We use Essences as a form of Table of Content, or TOC, sinc ethey tend to show different narratives. Essence can be applied to many things: a tree, branch, link, content type and images. Essences also link things sharing the same set of tags.

    Trees are composed of branches with a hierarchical set of tags. In a Data context, they’re called Nodes, in rendered form, they are called Links. Each link can appear in multiple branches, but in different spots within a branch. This can happen in conventional trees too, but in Simili, each link has a unique context both by tags they appear with and by what posts associated with them.

  • Why Tags?

    Simili, and the Terra Cognos use tags as the atomic structure of all knowledge.

    Since tags are names, they identify things. And to archive things is to archive the entire Internet.

    Tags are what builds Tag Trees & Essences. They provide context by themselves and when combined with other tags.

    By rule, tags are consistently applied by independent authors, AI & computer models. Red is red the world around. An apple is an apple. We will always have Paris.

    A Wikipedia article may describe a scene from a Humphrey Bogart movie where he gets off a Cablecar one night in San Francisco, and Streetcar.org has an article about that Streetcar, in San Francisco, now named after Humphrey Bogart. The tags “San Francisco”, “Humphrey Bogart” and “Cablecar” connects both.

    Tags are not flat, multiple tags have different content in common. Within a set of tags is a rich set of relationships between concepts, in myriad hierarchical contexts. In early experiments using this website, 40 posts with 60 tags results in more than 1,000 distinct combinations.

  • Tags, Essences & Trees

    The core technologies for Simili, the Terra Cognos are:

    • Tags
    • Trees made from Tags
    • Essences made from tags