[uf-discuss] Calais: a POSH project?

[Bob Jonkman]

Via Techdirt [1] I found an interesting project called OpenCalais [2]. It seems 
designed to 
take arbitrary text documents and spit out semantic RDF.  

There's absolutely no mention of microformats on the OpenCalais web site, but I 
can see 
incorporating microformat markup into the output.  And, of course, any effort 
at making the 
Web more POSH is A Good Thing.

The site seems sparse on working code or examples, and I haven't even tried to 
download the 
developer package (needs a "developer key" -- not so Open, IMHO)


[1] http://techdirt.com/articles/20080131/115224140.shtml
[2] http://www.opencalais.com/

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Re: [uf-discuss] Calais: a POSH project?

[Guillaume Lebleu]

Bob Jonkman wrote:
Via Techdirt [1] I found an interesting project called OpenCalais [2]. It seems designed to 
take arbitrary text documents and spit out semantic RDF.  

There's absolutely no mention of microformats on the OpenCalais web site, but I can see 
incorporating microformat markup into the output.  And, of course, any effort at making the 
Web more POSH is A Good Thing.
  
Bob, thanks for the link, given the RDF output, I would imagine RDFa or 
eRDF would be more straightforward for them to add than microformats.
The site seems sparse on working code or examples, and I haven't even tried to download the 
developer package (needs a "developer key" -- not so Open, IMHO)
  
I gave it a quick try. Seems to me very specific to financial/business 
news, but the roadmap says the 3rd party extensibility to other domains 
will be available later this year.


More: http://lebleu.org/blog/2008/02/02/kicking-the-tires-with-opencalais/

Guillaume
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