Open Calais @ Transparent Text

OpenCalais Transparent Text Sep 21, 2009

Things I Don’t Have to Talk About
There’s lots of text in the world
Most of the world’s knowledge is in text
You should stop ignoring it
If you’re going to work with text it needs structure

Today
Going to cover three things
The text problem in one slide
What is OpenCalais? What does it do?
A few examples of how people are and could use it
Sorry – no pretty visualizations

The Text Problem (aka Why OpenCalais?)
Target areas where:
The economics don’t support metadata creation
The value of metadata is potentially high
The value of aggregated metadata is potentially extremely high
Seconds Years Seconds Years Tweets New Gen News Legacy News Scient. Pubs Great Novels Latency Shelf Life

OpenCalais…
OpenCalais extracts smart metadata from unstructured text and links that metadata to the Linked Data cloud.

Calais progress to date
Launched in late January, 2008
15,000+ developers have joined OpenCalais.com
3-5 million content transactions per day
Delivered six major update releases
Free (as in free) for commercial or non-commercial use

OpenCalais 101 John Doe, the CEO of Acme Corporation, announced today the appointment of Jane Doe as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Person {John Doe} Person {Jane Doe} Company {Acme Corp} Person:Position {Person: John Doe} {Position: CEO} {Company: Acme Corp} JobChange {Person: JaneDoe} {Position: CFO} {Company: Acme Corp} {Status: Entering} Business Finance 97% Entities Facts Events Category

Unstructured Text Calais extracts entities, facts and events Metadata returned to the user with keys Keys provide access to the Calais Linked Data cloud Which provides information and other Linked Data pointers To a range of open and partner Linked data assets, including Thomson Reuters 1 2 3 4 5 6

Quick Demo

How is OpenCalais Being Used Today?

Triage – aka Improving the SNR OpenCalais Rules

Unification of Diverse Content Assets News1 OpenCalais Common Coding / Ontology Press Releases News2 Give me documents where “John Doe” is mentioned in relationship to an M&A event

Event Stream Analysis Text Stream (News, etc) Analysis OpenCalais

Investigative Networks Government Contract Documents Birth, Death, Wedding & News Person:Person Person:Company BusinessAlliance Person Person Person:Person Person:Company BusinessAlliance FamilyRelation OpenCalais OpenCalais

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Open Calais @ Transparent Text

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