Beside W3C´s Linked Data Initiative, it were semantic services like Calais, Zemanta or textwise which have made the advantages of the Semantic Web visible for a broader community in the last few months.
Each of those services follow a slightly different approach, but in a nutshell: They all offer an API to provide “similarity search” around social media or also to enhance enterprise information management.
Like a magic bullet those services offer a relief from information overflow and seem to become kind of a “semantic web killer application“.
If you´re familiar with one or many of those services, drop a comment and let us know, what you´ve been experienced so far, or also if you can think of any applications or further developments you would like to see around these kind of services.
If you are not familiar with this stuff, for a quick demo go to
- Zemanta´s Demo zone,
- Calais Viewer or see the
- textwise widget below.
The widget uses text from this blog to calculate similar stuff from the web.
Related articles by Zemanta
- semantic technology conference 2009 (web2express.org)
- Zemanta: semweb at work for your blog (squio.nl)
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DayLife ( http://developer.daylife.com/ ) and Evri ( http://api.evri.com ) both offer strong APIs in this and related areas.
Glad to see a round-up of available solutions. Here’s another to add to your list:
AlchemyAPI offers a rich API for semantic tagging and meta-data extraction tasks. It supports more languages (8) than other APIs in this space, and offers some advanced features as well:
* RDF / Linked Data output
* Disambiguation of two dozen entity types
* Web page cleaning, structured data extraction, microblogging support, etc.
* Language detection (97 languages)