A brief, entry-level overview of version 4.0 of the Calais Web service. Calais 4.0 automatically connects publishers to the exploding ecosystem of Linked Data assets on the Web, and helps them syndicate their metadata to reach downstream readers via search engines,news aggregators, 'related stories' recommendation services and more.

1. Calais Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative: Calais 4.0 ~ January, 14, 2009 Thomas (“Tom”) Tague and Krista Thomas

3. Calais? What’s Calais? As seen from U.K & the Continent As seen from North America As seen by us

9. 2: Getting from Text to the Linked Data Ecosystem

10. The Linked Data Cloud

12. How it Works – Under the Hood of Calais

13. How it Works – Under the Hood of Calais Calais Web Service ClearForest NLP Engine Rule Base Lexicons RDF Disambig. Engine Reference Data Assets Metadata Management Document Level Metadata Entity Level Linked Data and … Output Formatting Stat Tools

19. Example: Gist - today’s news filtered by people, places & events GIST uses Calais to prioritize stories, rank newsmakers & reveal trends / reader demand. It automatically aggregates multiple news sources and slots them into topic.

20. Example: The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Using Calais to tag historical archives & using tags as search terms

21. Example: IT Healthcare News Using Calais to surface ambient “related content”

23. Investigative Journalism FOIA Contract Documents Calais Web Service Company:Person FamilyRelation News Calais Web Service Company:Contract Company:Affiliation Big Fuzzy Graph