I actually stumbled upon this from a Google AdSense link, but there's some interesting stuff going on at http://opencalais.com/.
This project was mentioned back in February and at the time, was primarily dedicated to adding RDFa output to blog posts. Well, I guess they saw the light and now have an API that will add microformats to your blog posts, based on semantic analysis: http://opencalais.com/about It's being powered/sponsored by Reuters, so you can imagine why they're interested in this (basically being able to remine all the content they have in all their many news archives and databases). If you want to get into the good stuff, visit their tools page: http://opencalais.com/tools The most interesting projects are: Calais Marmoset - http://opencalais.com/Crawler Tagaroo - http://tagaroo.opencalais.com/ (Alex King's CrowdFavorite contributed to this project) Gnosis - http://opencalais.com/Gnosis Now, I haven't really played with the API, and I'm a little wary of their actual microformats output, but you can get a sense for what they're doing on this page: http://opencalais.com/Microformats If anything, I think there's some real promise to this approach and love the idea of being able to automatically microformat content as it's published to a blog or output from a CMS. Can anyone take a look at this and give us a sense for how good these tools are? Chris -- Chris Messina Citizen-Participant & Open Source Advocate-at-Large factoryjoe.com # diso-project.org citizenagency.com # vidoop.com This email is: [X] bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
