Adding semantic web metadata to your blog posts
Lately, I've been interested in fooling around with semantic web technology and am intrigued by the Calais service that Reuters recently made available. As far as I can tell, one of the services that Calais will be able to provide is to automatically encode RDF metadata into your content. I was hoping to RDFify my blog posts, but upon getting started with setting up the Calais service I quickly realized that I was in over my head. The sign-up form for the API asks me "What is your prefered protocol? REST? SOAP? XML-RPC? JSON-RPC?" I'll be durned if I know.
For the fun of it, I did paste the text of a blog post into the Calais Viewer, which will then attach RDF metadata to your content (but it doesn't publish it for you, it just shows it to you as an example of what Calais can do). Here's a screenshot of what it did. Note the columns of automatically generated metadata on the side of the page: Facility, Industry Term, Person, URL.
Is there anyone reading my blog who can offer some advice about whether I can set things up with my blog so that the Calais enriched posts are available?
FYI: I first heard about Calais on this Talking with Talis podcast from March 11, 2008.
posted by Stephen Francoeur @ 9:06 AM
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Stephen:
Tom Tague from Calais here.
You're right - Calais itself isn't the right tool. It's a web service and needs to have an application wrapped around it to make itself useful.
In just about a month we'll have a plugin for wordpress that will automate this function. A little while after that we'll be deploying similar plugins for other blogging and content management platforms.
Regards,
Tom, that's great! I'll have to add the Calais blog to my reader so I know when that happens.
Calais now offers the Tagaroo plugin for WordPress blogs that will suggest tags as you write posts.
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