Quick intro to OpenCalais as semantic plumbing, as presented by Tom Tague (@TomTague) at IBM's Transparent Text conference (#tt09).

1. OpenCalais Transparent Text Sep 21, 2009

7. OpenCalais 101 John Doe, the CEO of Acme Corporation, announced today the appointment of Jane Doe as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Person {John Doe} Person {Jane Doe} Company {Acme Corp} Person:Position {Person: John Doe} {Position: CEO} {Company: Acme Corp} JobChange {Person: JaneDoe} {Position: CFO} {Company: Acme Corp} {Status: Entering} Business Finance 97% Entities Facts Events Category

8. Unstructured Text Calais extracts entities, facts and events Metadata returned to the user with keys Keys provide access to the Calais Linked Data cloud Which provides information and other Linked Data pointers To a range of open and partner Linked data assets, including Thomson Reuters 1 2 3 4 5 6

9. Quick Demo

11. Triage – aka Improving the SNR OpenCalais Rules

12. Unification of Diverse Content Assets News1 OpenCalais Common Coding / Ontology Press Releases News2 Give me documents where “John Doe” is mentioned in relationship to an M&A event

13. Event Stream Analysis Text Stream (News, etc) Analysis OpenCalais

14. Investigative Networks Government Contract Documents Birth, Death, Wedding & News Person:Person Person:Company BusinessAlliance Person Person Person:Person Person:Company BusinessAlliance FamilyRelation OpenCalais OpenCalais