improving the signal to noise ratio. information in context. web as knowledge.
(Re-purposing a post of mine from www.opencalais.com)
Over the last few months you’ve probably seen a number of announcements about how OpenCalais has been chosen by one organization or another to support its business.
In a number of recent meetings I’ve been asked the (very fair) question, Why OpenCalais and not one of the [...]
A week ago or so our partner – Phase2Technology – announced the release of OpenPublish. The dust has settled from DrupalCon a bit and I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about what OpenPublish is and why it is very very important.
The quick background. Drupal is a hot Open Source content management and [...]
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 [...]
One of the really fun parts of working on the Calais Initiative is our community of developers. They toil in quiet and then – surprise! – they release something really cool and interesting. So – I wanted to take just a moment to highlight two new Calais R3.1 applications that popped up this weekend.
iPlayerist by [...]
Greg Boutin wrote a fairly in-depth piece on SemanticProxy. In this article Greg reviews SemanticProxy’s performance and asks a number of questions about whether it’s truly “Semantic”. So – second in a series of cheating by republishing responses I’ve written… here we go.
Greg’s original article is located here
Greg:
I thought I had responded to this post [...]
Mark Gould wrote a nice overview of Calais and SemanticProxy.com here http://bit.ly/gL1Aq. Because this was an introduction to Calais for a new audience oriented toward brand and marketing – I though it was worthwhile to respond with a basic overview of what Calais is about and why we’re doing it. Given that the response ended [...]
One in a series of posts on cool tools that have been built using the Calais service from Thomson Reuters. I promise a big post on what Calais is, what it does, why we’re doing it and all that jazz in the near future. In the meantime feel free to visit the site (above) or [...]
Time to start talking about great tools that have been built on top of Calais.
Calais is an initiative by Thomson Reuters to provide one of the core building blogs of the Semantic Web: semantic metadata generation. At the core of Calais is a web service that ingests text content, analyzes using natural language processing, machine [...]