Calais Archive

Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers

The SemTech 2008 Conference – San Jose, CA – May 19, 2008 – To meet the needs of WordPress bloggers everywhere, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN), the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, has debuted the new Calais Tagaroo plugin for the open source WordPress publishing platform from WordPress.org.

The Calais Tagaroo plugin makes it easy for WordPress bloggers to tag the people, places, facts and events in their blog posts – and add relevant photos from Flickr – to increase their visual appeal and search accessibility on the Web.

The Calais Tagaroo plug in works in the background while bloggers write to automatically generate tags and find related photos for selection, sizing and insertion via an easy-to-use interface. Bloggers are in control, and can add their own metatags along the way. They can also easily prioritize Tagaroo’s image search on Flickr to find the pictures that best illustrate their story.

"Calais Tagaroo brings automated metatagging and real-time photo search to the Web’s most popular blogging platform," said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. "We are extremely pleased to provide this free utility to WordPress bloggers, enabling them to increase their blogs’ search relevance and to benefit from new and emerging semantic services."

The Calais Tagaroo plugin is easy to use. Here’s how it works:

1. Bloggers on WordPress 2.3 or above go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com to download the plugin and get simple instructions.
2. They then go to OpenCalais.com to register for the Calais community and to get a Calais API key.
3. Finally, they use the WordPress settings page to paste a copy into their key space, and start drafting their next blog post.

Calais Tagaroo will start working immediately, suggesting tags for more than 100 types of things (people, companies, geographies, and organizations) and events (natural disasters, management changes, stock offerings, etc.). This vocabulary of facts and events will continue to grow every month to cover additional knowledge domains, such as sports and entertainment.

Calais Tagaroo is another component in the growing Calais toolkit. Calais delivers the power of the world’s leading semantic metadata generation service as a free and open Web service with a growing portfolio of plugins, modules and applications. To learn more about Calais Tagaroo, go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, go to OpenCalais.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com

Media Contact:
Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters
+1 415 202 3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Thomson Reuters.

Brings the Calais Web Service Together with Yahoo! Search’s New Developer Platform, SearchMonkey to:

• Give Site Owners Access to Semantic Information on Any Web Page
• Participate in Evolving Open Vocabularies with SearchMonkey
• Deliver the Calais Marmoset Toolkit to Publishers and Sites of All Kinds

The SemTech 2008 Conference – San Jose, CA – May 19, 2008 – Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN) today announced that it has teamed up with Yahoo! Search to speed the development of semantic search services.

The effort brings Thomson Reuters’ new Calais Web Service, and its developer community at OpenCalais.com, together with Yahoo! Search’s new open developer platform, SearchMonkey, which lets site owners use semantic Web standards to enhance Yahoo! Search results, making them more useful, relevant and visually appealing.

"Our automated semantic metadata generation capabilities help site owners increase the search accessibility of their content while SearchMonkey empowers them to enhance their Yahoo! Search results with images, deep links and more," said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. "Together, we are giving bloggers, publishers and sites owners of all kinds a new level of flexibility as well as the tools they need to enter the era of semantic search."

Thomson Reuters will work closely with Yahoo! Search to include the Calais Web Service for SearchMonkey developers to use in their applications. This will allow them to drill down and retrieve detailed semantic information on the unstructured content of any Web page, including news stories, blog postings and more.

In addition, Thomson Reuters will make the Calais vocabulary for business, including business- and finance-relevant semantic ontologies and entities available for use in SearchMonkey. The parties will work together to extend SearchMonkey’s business-relevant vocabulary over time.

Finally, Thomson Reuters will debut the Calais Marmoset toolkit. This extension to the Calais Web service allows content publishers to automatically generate rich semantic metadata for use by Yahoo! SearchMonkey as well as other metacrawlers and semantic applications. Calais Marmoset is another component in the growing Calais toolkit. Calais delivers the power of the world’s leading semantic metadata generation service as a free and open Web service with a growing portfolio of tools, plugins, modules and applications. Learn more about Calais Marmoset at http://opencalais.com/Tools.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of seman-tic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, please visit OpenCalais.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the fi-nancial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Media Contact:
Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters
+1 415 202 3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Thomson Reuters.

New Modules Make it Easy for Drupal Users to Metatag their Content, Increasing Search Relevance and Accessibility on the Web

The SemTech 2008 Conference – San Jose, CA – May 19, 2008 – Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL: NASDAQ: TRIN) and Phase2 Technology have debuted three Calais modules for integration with Drupal, the open source content management platform that supports a variety of Web sites ranging from blogs and online publishers to large interactive communities.

Calais is Thomson Reuters’ Semantic Web Service that enables publishers to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in their content to increase its search accessibility on the Web.

The Calais modules for Drupal are feature-rich, highly intuitive and designed to make it easy for Drupal users to automatically metatag their content, generating rich semantic metadata that can be shared via a simple key and integrated into the larger content universe.

"Calais is a natural fit for our experience implementing Drupal on media and publishing sites," said Jeff Walpole, Managing Partner, Phase2 Technology. "We’ll continue our work on Calais and are excited about the functionality these modules will provide to the news and information business."

"Enabling the Semantic Web is an exciting frontier for the future of the Web and a key opportunity for Drupal," said Dries Buytaert, creator of the Drupal open source project and co-founder of Acquia. "We welcome Calais to our community and encourage its future development."

The modules use the power of Calais to suggest terms for association within a piece of content, similar to how del.icio.us recommends relevant tags. They also enable Drupal users to integrate their own publisher- and user-generated metadata as they go forward, to truly customize their installation.

"We’re extremely pleased to be working with Phase2 Technology to provide Drupal users with everything they need to tap Calais’s rich metatagging capabilities," said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. "The new modules make it easy for Drupal users large and small to launch automated metatagging and take advantage of the Semantic Web."

Availability: The Calais modules for Drupal are available now. To learn more, please visit the Calais section of the Phase2 Technology site. Demos can be found here: http://calais.phase2technology.com/content/calais-demo-screencast.

About Drupal

Drupal is open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a Web site. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different Web sites, including community Web portals, corporate Web sites, social networking sites and much more. For more information on Drupal, go to www.drupal.org.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, go to OpenCalais.com.

About Phase2 Technology

Phase2 Technology is a leading provider of adaptable web software solutions, application development and consulting services. The company specializes in content management systems, content exchange, CRM and online publishing and community tools. We apply our unique Agile Approach methodology to every project and have particular expertise in Drupal, CiviCRM and custom Java applications. The Phase2 Technology development team has been highly active in the Drupal community for several years. For more information, go to www.phase2technology.com.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.

Media Contacts:
Tiffany Shackelford
Phase2 Technology
703 548 6050 x 100
Tiffany@Phase2technology.com

Krista Thomas
Thomson Reuters
415 202 3523
Krista.Thomas@ThomsonReuters.com

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post may not necessarily represent the views of CenterNetworks. This press release was paid for and provided in its entirety by Thomson Reuters.

Reuters has announced their new Calais program today which lets publishers of all kinds (bloggers, web site authors, etc.) to use their API to send data to Reuters to help create "metadata" about the content. It looks like Reuters is using Mashery for the Calais API.

The release, which throws around the term "Semantic Web" for geek bonus points includes information on how the information you provide will be used, "The Calais Web service returns content in an open, interoperable and entirely portable format, with a unique identifier that can be easily integrated into social networks, widgets and semantic applications like Powerset, Freebase, Twine, Hakia, Wikia, Blue Organizer and more."

"Calais eliminates the cost of manually creating those tags while giving publishers an effective means of metadata transport. We look forward to working with developers on creative means of extraction that can help usher in the next great wave of innovation on the Web," said Gerry Campbell, President, Search and Content Technologies, Reuters.

Now on to to the part you came here for. For the $5,000, you must develop a plugin for WordPress and it must have the following characteristics:

• Offer automatic blog content scanning;
• Support rich meta-tagging;
• Create and maintain a semantic tag cloud for each blogger to post; and
• Embed the related Calais URI.

If you want in, you best do it quickly – here is the application link. I wonder how they will determine which app wins – will time be the only factor?