I’ve been thinking about the fact that the Semapedia principle is not really limited to monuments and buildings and muesums and such. What came to my mind is something I want to call ‘context sensitive tagging’ where I harness the power of the Wikipedia to basically explain the world around me.

Example: I walked by a gangway last night. And there was a big sign about that it is private ground and that I must not pass. I asked myself: What *is* privacy? How is it defined? The solution was to create a Semapedia Tag on “Privacy” and stick it there:

Next comes our beautiful flora and fauna! How cool would it be to have biologists tag plants with the respective Wikipedia article. I tried this out with referring to “Chlorophyll”:

And something else: How about learning about the architect of a building? I tagged a sweet spot from where one can see Friedensreich Hunderwassers Heat-Plant here in Vienna

What do you think about this? What kind of application comes to your mind?

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