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The State of the Market in Semantic Technologies

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jun 16, 2009

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Tom Tague from Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais team did a keynote speech today at SemTech in San Jose. His presentation was a wonderful wrapup of current semantic technology trends, and what we can expect over the next few years.

Top open, he said that where we are now in the evolution of the Web is content rich, but information poor - plus "experientially deficient". So he said that 'web 3.0' is about cleaning up the mess of web 2.0 and improving interfaces. In terms of semantic technology, he explained that over the past 5 years it has evolved from invention of standards to a period of commercial innovation on top of those inventions. He said that standards are still being worked on, but now "we are at an inflexion point where innovation is exploding."

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Tague called Calais, the project he leads at Thomson Reuters, "a web service a.k.a. plumbing". They've had 13 releases, talked with 100+ customers about Calais, have 13,000 registered developers. He's put the ideas that he's been talking about with customers and developers into 6 buckets, which we've listed

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