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OpenCalais to Add Semantic Metadata to Oracle Databases

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Sep 01, 2009

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Enterprise giant Oracle released its Database 11g Release 2 today, and it now supports OpenCalais, the Semantic Web service from Thomson Reuters. Native support for OpenCalais means users can now extract rich semantic metadata about people, places, companies, and events. Oracle directly calls the OpenCalais API though your normal database administration, though users will still have to grab an API key from Thomson Reuters.

OpenCalais began as the Clear Forest service and was acquired by Reuters back in 2007. By pairing with a leading enterprise-class database like Oracle, OpenCalais has proven that it can handle increasingly large document transactions, providing better search indexing and other semantic know-how to businesses as well as the consumer Web.

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Other than getting an API key, incorporating OpenCalais should be straightforward. The basic gist is that it will take just about any type of text or HTML document, from Microsoft Word to Adobe PDF, and add simple yet useful metadata.

That metadata is extracted through natural-language processing (NLP

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