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OpenCalais will link to Linked Open Data identifiers

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(by Frank van Harmelen)

This has been talked about a lot already at various places, but not yet discussed here: as announced in http://www.opencalais.com/node/9501, the next OpenCalais release early next year will start using identifiers from the Linked Open Data cloud. This will turn OpenCalais into a true Semantic Web service. All in all, the folk at OpenCalais/Reuters did a couple of brave things:

  1. when they enrich text with entity recognition for places, people, events, organisations, etc, they make the results availabe in RDF
  2. they make this available as a free service
  3. now they will use LOD URI’s for identifying their entities.
Amanda West (Chief Innovation Officer at Thomson Reuters) said a few interesting things during a session at IST2008 in Lyon last week, including “many of Reuters’ customers are machines”. How much more motivation for a Semantic Web do you need?
This seems now to become a real trend: information-companies who are linking their main business product to the Semantic Web: MetaWeb releasing their Freebase as RDF (announced at ISWC), Yahoo! becoming ever more public about their use of RDF <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/yahoo/>), and now Reuters joining the game. It seems that we are really getting there!
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6 Responses to “OpenCalais will link to Linked Open Data identifiers”

  1. FrankVanHarmelen Says:
    December 13th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    Excellent explanation on the significance of all of this at http://semanticbusiness.blogspot.com/2008/12/updated-profile-calais.html

  2. Semantic Web Gang podcast for January talks about Linked Data and Thomson Reuters | Paul Miller Says:
    January 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

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  3. Frank van Harmelen Says:
    January 18th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    This is now official (mid Jan), see
    http://www.beet.tv/2009/01/thomson-reuters-announces-linked-data-integration-with-calais-40-.html

  4. FrankVanHarmelen Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 1:13 am

    Good write-up with some more background data on OpenCalais at http://npharder.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/calais-notes-from-the-ny-semantic-web-meetup/

  5. FrankVanHarmelen Says:
    February 28th, 2009 at 12:11 am

    Another Blog discussing how Entitity Extraction is a great fuel for the Semantic Web: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/02/how-entity-extraction-is-fueli.html

  6. FrankVanHarmelen Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 11:21 am

    More Open Calais news (Phase2 Technology and the Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative Team to Deliver Drupal OpenPublish) at http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/phase2-technology-and-the-thomson,739072.shtml

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