The most important thing to understand about context is where it falls in the scheme of Meaning, data, knowledge and Widsom?
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Tag: Knowledge
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Context is just like baking a cake
Context is like baking a cake
Data is information. Data is not knowledge. No more than a bowl of flour, some eggs, sugar & butter is a cake.
A Tag is data. Sometimes it has information. Like if your flour is cake flour, but is still not a cake.
Just as you mix ingredients & bake a cake, you need to mix tags to bake context.
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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.
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What is Simili?
Simili is the movement to create the Internet Library for Humanity, Terra Cognos.
The Blind Guy, Paul Wolborsky, is founder, original architect & developer for the infrastructure & essential technologies.
The Internet is the greatest treasure Humankind ever owned, but its knowledge & data are all dissolute, incoherent, siloed, raw nuggets buried in mountains of content. Google built a trillion dollar industry around keyword search & ChatGPT/Gemini are a great step forward, but those are proprietary technologies & the model resembles some guy who goes into the back room to get a thing you ask for. We need an open framework that makes knowledge & wisdom available to everybody yet still generate wealth for those who build it.
To create this great Library, Simili will create an array of technologies that will generate indexes, tables of contents, categories, hierarchical contexts, tags, data sets and browsing tools to help all humans gain knowledge & wisdom from the web.
We start with a WordPress plugin, Simili Trees, which implements the first core concepts. Then, we create the Simili SearchSpace that will initially serve WordPress websites that install the plugin. Then, we will build more client-side applications for other websites, big & small.
The Terra Cognos will consiste of one or more colonies with a hice & swarm based on blockchain and digital currency.
The Terra Cognos will embrace Data Science, Content Mining, RDF knowlege and AI.
The SearchSpace will be fertile grounds for a vast for-profit and non-profit ecosystem, with wealth, livelihoods and gig work available to anyone in the world with a Smart-phone.
And generations from now, it will accompany our species as it expands into the Galaxy.
And it all starts with trees made from tags.
Simili is the movement to create the Internet Library for Humanity, Terra Cognos.
The Internet is the greatest treasure Humankind ever owned, but its knowledge & data are all siloed, raw nuggests buried in mountains of content.
In order to create this great Library, Simili will create an array of technologies that will generate indexes, tables of contents, categories, hierarchical contexts, tags, data sets and browsing tools to help all humans gain knowledge & wisdom from the web.
We start with a WordPress plugin, Simili Trees, which implements the first core concepts. Then, we create the Simili SearchSpace that will initially serve WordPress websites that install the plugin. Then, we will build more client-side applications for other websites, big & small.
The Terra Cognos will consiste of one or more colonies with a hice & swarm based on blockchain and digital currency.
The Terra Cognos will embrace Data Science, Content Mining, RDF knowlege and AI.
The SearchSpace will be fertile grounds for a vast for-profit and non-profit ecosystem, with wealth, livelihoods and gig work available to anyone in the world with a Smart-phone.
And generations from now, it will accompany our species as it expands into the Galaxy.
And it all starts with trees made from tags.