semantic web

Today Phase2 Technology, in association with Thomson Reuters, launched a big update to the set of Calais for Drupal modules. This marks the first of many feature sets to be released through the end of the year and beyond. These releases are intended to be part of a larger toolset for publishers and large content providers using Drupal. These latest updates are largely focused on the end-user and appeal to publishers. We think they will be useful to all Drupal developers, though, as well as those interested in Semantic technology.

Calais released a technology preview of Calais 3.0 for testing and feedback today that we are eager to play with. It includes a mix of interesting new things for us.

More than just a passing fad, the 'semantic web' is referenced more and more. Today I stumbled across a site that employs some interesting semantic techniques to provide free access to global health information in a widely recognized visual format: Google maps!

We have been messing around with a new technology lately called Apture that provides a very cool way for content publishers to contextually link terms in their content to related rich media items in a clever way. With just one line of code placed on the page, publishers and bloggers can quickly and easily turn flat pages of text into a compelling multimedia experience by providing pop up supplemental references.

In the last several weeks, Phase2 has blogged about our development and release of an integration module for Drupal CMS with the Calais Web Service. Why did we spend time and money on it? Here’s some background.

Phase2 technology has developed and released an integration module between Drupal CMS and the Calais Web-Service. The Calais web service allows you to automatically annotate your content with rich semantic metadata. The Calais module, developed by Phase2 brings the power of Calais into Drupal.