Reuters Releases API for Open Calais Web Service
Reuters launched a new Web service last week which provides free semantic tagging capabilities, instigating the improved integration of Web content, as well as compatibility of the metadata with other semantic applications such as Blue Organizer, Hakia, Wikia, Freebase, Powerset and Twine.
The Web service is an API whose capabilities serve for a dual perspective: both for the providers of content and the consumers of content. That is, the metatagging service is available for both public and private bodies who generate information (content), for example, company web sites, and blogs, as well as for those who retrieve content, such as search engines, RSS readers, and news portals. The generation of semantic metadata is automatic and incorporates any existing metadata into the output, which is returned to the user in RDF format. An additional functionality which adds user friendliness to the service is a Windows application which enables the user to view the output, the types of metadata extracted, by browsing a folder which contains the texts processed.
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