OpenCalais and Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey both focus on document metadata. OpenCalais is a new toolkit that allows you to incorporate semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application. Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey API allows you to connect data services from around the world and integrate them into the Yahoo! search engine.
by James Leigh
July 8, 2008
any digital documents reside on the web and other networks, but few of them have sufficient metadata to accurately
identify the content. Adding metadata to a document has typically been the burden of the document author, and
few authors take the time to create detailed metadata for their documents, relying instead on editing software to
create metadata such as author's name and modified history. However, few document editors can create metadata
describing the document's content.
The method for creating metadata may be changing with the public release of OpenCalais. OpenCalais is a public web service that integrates with applications, such as authoring tools, to create metadata about unstructured English document content (with other languages to follow later). Even documents that are created without metadata can benefit from the OpenCalais web service.
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any digital documents reside on the web and other networks, but few of them have sufficient metadata to accurately
identify the content. Adding metadata to a document has typically been the burden of the document author, and
few authors take the time to create detailed metadata for their documents, relying instead on editing software to
create metadata such as author's name and modified history. However, few document editors can create metadata
describing the document's content.
