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Why OpenCalais?

By Tague, on March 6th, 2010%

(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 other . . . → Read More: Why OpenCalais?

OpenPublish; Deploy a high performance (semantic) web site in hours – not months.

By admin, on March 16th, 2009%

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 . . . → Read More: OpenPublish; Deploy a high performance (semantic) web site in hours – not months.

Metadata as a Service

By admin, on February 6th, 2009%

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 . . . → Read More: Metadata as a Service

Developers! Developers! Developers!

By Tague, on October 20th, 2008%

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 . . . → Read More: Developers! Developers! Developers!

Greg Boutin @ Semantics Incorporated

By Tague, on October 3rd, 2008%

Greg Boutin

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 . . . → Read More: Greg Boutin @ Semantics Incorporated

Mark Gould @ Brand 3.0

By Tague, on October 3rd, 2008%

Mark Gould

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 . . . → Read More: Mark Gould @ Brand 3.0

Calais Ecosystem: Gnosis for Firefox & IE

By Tague, on August 28th, 2008%

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 . . . → Read More: Calais Ecosystem: Gnosis for Firefox & IE

Calais Ecosystem: Calais for Drupal

By Tague, on August 23rd, 2008%

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, . . . → Read More: Calais Ecosystem: Calais for Drupal

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