Calais is the Reuters Clearforest product that, according to their homepage, “automatically annotates your content with rich semantic metadata”. Give it text, and it returns the text marked up with RDF that identifies entities and various semantic information about those entities.

DBpedia, as its home page tells us, “is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web.” That’s “available” in the sense of available as data to programs that read and process it, because the data was already available to eyeballs on Wikipedia. This availability is a big deal to the semantic web community because it’s a huge amount of valuable (and often, fun) information that the public…

Twine looks like fun to me, the standards support looks great, and I’ve applied to be a beta tester. Still, one point that Shelley Powers made about it bears repeating and rereading:

The Semantic Web Strategies conference is just a few weeks away, although there are still a few days before September 12th to get the early registration rate.

I’m very happy to announce that the program for the Semantic Web Strategies conference in San Jose September 30 - October 2nd is finished and available. For keynote speakers, we’ve got some well-known names who all bring a combination of experience and creativity to their semantic web work: Eric Miller, Nova Spivack, and Kingsley Idehen. We also have presentations on many interesting projects from large and small organizations and well-known semantic web companies such as…

Eamonn Neylon has kindly moved the monthly meeting of the Oxfordshire Semantic Web Interest Group to later in the month than usual so that people who are in Oxford for the XML Summer School can attend. To make it even easier for them, the meeting will be at Wadham College, where the rest of the summer school takes place.

The proposal submission form for the Semantic Web Strategies conference was timing out over the weekend, but it’s back up and working properly now.