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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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