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.