Hi, I have worked together with John Pereira from the IKS project on a draft for a press release. John helped to get some quotes from early adopters using Stanbol. Thanks!
Please, find the draft below. My plan would be to submit it to [email protected] for publishing tomorrow. Best, - Fabian The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Stanbol as a Top-Level Project Apache Stanbol provides a set of reusable components for semantic content management. Forest Hill, MD --The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Stanbol has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Stanbol's intended use is to extend traditional content management systems with semantic services. It offers semantic services for automatic content enhancement, a process where plain text is automatically enriched with meta-data, e.g. about persons, places and organizations, from external data sources. Customized enhancement engines and process chains can be designed for user specific enhancement tasks. That makes Apache Stanbol a framework for automatic content annotation and linking. "The graduation also acknowledges the success of Apache Stanbol in bringing together the communities of semantic technologies and content management," explained Fabian Christ, Vice President of Apache Stanbol. Providing reusable components that can be used to enhance content automatically, is an important step in lifting existing content to a level that makes it more useable for all kinds of tasks, including a better search experience. Adding meta-data to content and linking the content to other existing resources, adds the kind of value that could make the difference in many industrial use cases. "Searchbox is leveraging the Stanbol framework for the Fusepool project as the core framework for processing unstructured and plain text information sources," explained Stéphane Gamard from Searchbox. "Thanks to Stanbol, different information sources can be processed, semantically enhanced and delivered to a front-end web application for an intuitive and advanced user experience." Since entering the Apache Incubator in November 2010 (Apache Stanbol was initiated by the part European Union funded project IKS http://www.iks-project.eu), Stanbol has been quickly embraced as an ideal framework that makes semantic technologies useable for developers of content management systems. The Project provides a set of predefined enhancement engines including engines for language detection, named entity recognition, and engines for linking entities to linked open data (LOD) sources like DBPedia or geonames.org. "CELI France, thanks to the integration with Stanbol, we were able to integrate our curriculum vitae (CV) parsing technology with main stream open source document management system, said Luca Dini from CELI. "Moreover the final user experience was empowered by automatic linking with external LOD sources, which allowed true semantic reasoning over information linguistically extracted from CVs". Availability and Oversight Apache Stanbol software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Stanbol source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://stanbol.apache.org/. A timeline of the project's history through graduation from the Apache Incubator is also available. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. "Apache", "Apache Stanbol", and "ApacheCon" are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 2012/9/26 Fabian Christ <[email protected]>: > Hi Bertrand, > > thanks for the hint. I am interested in leading that and will provide > a draft. I think we should take any opportunity to grow the community > and to create more interest in Stanbol. > > Best, > - Fabian > > 2012/9/26 Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> If someone's interested in leading that, it's possible to do a press >> release + foundation blog post about Stanbol's graduation. >> >> See >> https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces25 >> for an example, such announcements can be coordinated by sending a >> draft to [email protected] for review and then publishing. >> >> -Bertrand > > > > -- > Fabian > http://twitter.com/fctwitt -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
