"That should be just a start to an epic document dump, which would allow journalists and citizens alike to make meaningful searches of government business." - Jim Rainey

"My main need is a service that receives a cleaned-up plain text version of a blog post and returns normalized tags and reusable entity identifiers. So, the findings in this post are rather technical and just related to the BlogDB requirements." - Benjamin Nowack

"After just two and a half years, we’re processing five million documents per day and storing 90 billion triples, which may be the world’s largest collection of structured facts and events." - Tom Tague

Fans of the OpenPublish packaged Drupal distribution will be pleased to know that creator Phase2 Technology has some interesting updates coming, and big plans to complete before the next DrupalCon.

Nancy Davis Kho of Econtent Magazine offers an overview of highlights from the Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, 2010.

Tom Tague isn't content to let an article just be an article. "How do I take a chunk of text," he asked, "and turn it into a chunk of data?"

Imagine if your news site let you do a search for the names of every Fortune 500 executive who has announced at least four million dollars in eco-friendly real estate purchases in 2009?

Exposing the structure - the semantics of content on the web - is the main goal of the Semantic Web movement (a.k.a: The Next Big Thing, The Web 3.0). See what's coming for RDFa in OpenPublish, the first semantic CMS for publishers.

This tutorial shows how to use the OpenCalais API to identify geographic references in a text and display them on an OpenLayers map.

Allen Thraen shares insights and a prototype for auto-tagging content with OpenCalais.