Metadata as a Service
Kas Thomas (of CMS Watch) wrote two great back to back posts on his blog.
In the first post, Kas discusses the power of “Metadata as a Service” – in short what can you make happen if metadata generation is widely available to your content creation, management and consumption tools.
What’s great is that he doesn’t stop there. In his second post he goes on to construct an OpenOffice plugin that automatically meta-tags your content as you’re creating it. This has obvious benefits for content management and search across or outside the enterprise.
Now – take what Kas has done and extend it to the Linked Data cloud as we’ve done with Calais 4.0. Beyond metadata we now have super-metadata. By using the Linked Data capabilities built in to Calais you could not only tag an article as being about say “IBM” – but insert the fact that IBM is headquartered in New York, That New York is part of North America and that IBM has an SIC code of 8742 and others.
Here’s the Calais URI for IBM: Start exploring the DBPedia links at the bottom and I’m sure you’ll think of some interesting use cases.
