Reuters has made a major move to encourage tagging of content for better understanding and discovery. In 2007, Reuters bought ClearForest Ltd noted for the semantic capabilities of its technology for tagging structured and unstructured data and extracting meaning. Through the Calais web service the technology is to be extended from internal content tagging to using externally generated tags on blogs and other sources.
That vision is being realized as the company extends its internal web service for content-tagging structured and unstructured data (its vast store of corporate information as well as reporters' stories), based upon ClearForest technology, to the world at large.
From Reuters Releases Open API for New Calais Web Service, Centre Daily (Jan 29)
The Calais Web service enables publishers, bloggers and sites of all kinds to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in their content to increase its search relevance and accessibility on the Web. It also lets content consumers, such as search engines, news portals, bookmarking services and RSS readers, submit content for automatic semantic metatagging that is performed in well under a second.
The Calais Web service generates semantic metadata automatically, and adds metadata from publishers.
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