Athena, the tree that changes the Web
Athena is the 1st auto-generated tag-tree from Simili. It may transform the Web from content to knowledge.
Features
Trees, built from Tags
The Athena tree consists of branches, or chains of the most popular tags from a collection of posts. Tags are used because they are proper nouns or names, so they are meaningful. Tags can also connect websites across the Internet, so this Technology can be used to build the Terra Cognos, 1st Internet Library of Humanity. It will be easy to help stock this library. All Website owners will have to do is install a plugin, tag their content & join the Registry. Tags are easy to maintain, there are numerous tools that auto-tag all website’s posts. Finally, Because Tags are contextual & consistent, they can be used to auto-generate trees.
A forest of trees
The solution to the age-less problem of having to build a Category tree of everything is to instead build many small trees, which appear or is hidden in your serach browser as you browse through concepts.
We generate trees for the entire site, for each content types. Even categories have trees! In the beginning, readers can select a tree by pressing a button, but we plan on adding intelligence to choose the best tree for you as your discovery progresses.
Pathways
The Athena tree is built up from a set of tag lists made from a pool of top-rated tags. Each tag has its own list, showing the other tags that appeared with them in 2+ posts. We call these Tag Pairs.
Each tag in a list forms a branch, with some restrictions. Each tag has a set of posts, but only tags with posts in common with a previous tag’s filtered set of posts can join the branch. This is called Progressive Chain of Context, or Reticulated or articulated branch.
This progressive, filtering of posts is a credible hierarchy of context, and also naturally reduce the number of posts associated with each tag, making it behave more like a traditional category.
Disclaimer: Athena is the first of its kind, and in the beginning, it is a starting point. Our biggest challenge is to find ways to arrange links in some form of pecking order, which is like constructing a 3-d model of a city from a 2-d overhead photo. Also, since most of the Simili.io demo covers abstract concepts, not the best kind of content to demonstrate hierarchy./p>
We plan on releasing a new family of trees, Aurelius built from different logic & algorithms in September, 2024.
Boughs & Branches
Traditional trees are link-centric, Athena
A link is polymorphic
Although a link may appear many times in a tree, each one assumes the meaning of its branch. So no 2 homonyms have the same meaning.
Flavors
The Simili WordPress plugin Mythos and the MemeWeb technology use sets of popular tags, called Essences.Depending on how high or low the current scope is, an Essence is either a Table-of-content or all part of a single, greater concept,
We generate a set of trees with each flavor as the root. The root, or flavor contains all the posts used by the tree. When building the tree, each candidate tag has to have at least one post in common with the root, and only those posts are included in this tree.
We call this flavoring because all posts are directly or indirectly connected to a single theme, which is the root of the tree.
Lexus, Lexi & Lexicons
A flavored tree with its posts is a learning unit. We call it a Lexus. A group of Lexi makes a Lexicon.
Lexi are tangible assets, intellectual property, that can be authored, owned, traded, the subject of NFTs. They can be combined into curriculi, and after learning, then, being tested on its concept, a student can earn a certificate or even a degree. They can be a formal part of a technology, or legal document, or treaty.
By being assets, it follows that Lexi have economic, transactional value. All the infrastructure, support, sale, development means maintaining Lexi to be useful to the world, requiring a global industry, needing lots and lots of people to drive it forward.
Search, Explore, Discover
Rather than merely be a means of organizing posts, Athena is designed to let readers explore, meander, wander, pilgrimage as they feel. This is Learning opposed to Teaching. In 2 decades of working with Taxonomies,
I learned the whole idea of organizing, imposed learning cannot withstand freedom & individuality. The less structure a collection has, the more likely it will be useful to many people.
The most radical promise of the Internet is the democritization of knowledge. Provided we have the tool that does not impose its own sense of order on others. What we end up is nobody knowing everything, nobody enforcing what others learn, and the need to collaborate. We also get learning for the joy of knowing.
Gateway to the Stars
Knowledge, Technology & Wisdom are what we as a candidate star-faring species, Humans, aspire to. We embody this desire in the meme of a Goddess, Athena. It in this spirit I named our first Tree Athena.
That Athena also starts with an A has nothing to do with it. I intend to call the next tree, Aurelius. Again, just coincidence.
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