Life in the Linked Data Cloud: Calais Release 4

The Gist: Release 4 of Calais will be a big deal. In that release we’ll go beyond the ability to extract semantic data from your content. We will link that extracted semantic data to datasets from dozens of other information sources, from Wikipedia to Freebase to the CIA World Fact Book. In short – instead of being limited to the contents of the document you’re processing, you’ll be able to develop solutions that leverage a large and rapidly growing information asset: the Linked Data Cloud.

The goal of this post is just to give our community a heads-up to start thinking and planning.

Calais Community:

A quick note to let you know that the Calais Release 3.1 technology preview moves to Calais production this Monday 11/3. If you haven't had a chance to test with 3.1 - this is the time to do it.

Details on the 3.1 release are located here. 

Well, it’s been over two weeks since we released something cool (www.semanticproxy.com) – time to get cracking on some new stuff.

We’ve placed Release 3.1 of Calais into technology preview status. Just as a reminder, technology preview is a separate instance of Calais that allows developers to evaluate new features and test their software prior to our moving the release to production. You can access the Preview by simply pointing your tool to http://beta.opencalais.com rather than http://api.opencalais.com. Just like Calais, the preview version requires that you have a developer API key – your existing key will work just fine.

We released Calais a little less than nine months ago. It’s been a fascinating process and an edifying period.

On the one hand we’ve seen a level of interest and adoption well beyond anything we’d anticipated: 6,000 registered developers. Well over 1,000,000 transactions per day. Dozens of creative and inspirational applications. It’s been great.

Calais R3 Now Available

We completed our two-week Technology Preview of Calais Release 3, and it's now fully available to users. The details are located here. 

This is a long post, so I’ll highlight the significant changes right here:

We're all immersed in thinking about where the web is headed. Whether we call it web 3.0, the Semantic Web or whatever. We're so immersed we often have difficulty in explaining why it is important in a simple, coherent and business-relevant manner.