Category: Simili Technologies
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Context – Content – Data – Knowledge – Wisdom
The most important thing to understand about context is where it falls in the scheme of Meaning, data, knowledge and Widsom? it is this.. Context is not meaning. Content is meaning. Content alone is not knowledge. Knowledge is Content and Context. To use knowledge as a context with other knowledge is wisdom
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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 &…
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Context in Action, Apples & Oranges
To show you Context Concepts, we start with Apples & Oranges. You know Apples & Oranges is the gold standard in things that are completely different? That’s not actually true, but people like it and you know that’s all that matters! The idea of context is establishing a consensual meaning. Apples & Oranges are many…
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Elmer Fudd on a Pilgwimage
Context is a rabbit hole, and I am NOT Elmer Fudd. I caught the Rabbit. It wasn’t easy. The problem started when I actually had to figure out what Context is rather than what it does. It’s complicated. As a tool, Context is like a hammer. You use it but you don’t ponder much about…
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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…
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Tags versus Terms
By rule of thumb… Terms live in trees & are hierarchical. Tags live in content and are democratic. Terms are nouns, and tags are names.
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Tags, Essences & Trees
The core technologies for Simili, the Terra Cognos are: Tags Trees made from Tags Essences made from tags
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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…
