2. 5 Quick ways to improve content value do cool stuff using Calais

3. Calais ? What’s Calais? Is a semantic metadata generation service provided by Thomson Reuters Extracts entities, facts and events from unstructured text Is a web service supported by a growing toolkit of developer frameworks, plugins and applications Is available for commercial and non-commercial use for free Available at www.opencalais.com

4. ? What’s Calais? Unstructured Documents (Text / HTML / XML) Calais Named Entities FactsEvents People, Companies, Organization, Geographies, Books, Albums, Authors, etc. Position, Alliance, Person- Education, Person-Political, etc. Sporting, Management Change, IPO, Labor Action, etc.

6. Do Get 1 250,000 articles. Three Editors. Do the Math. Use Calais to automatically tag your historical archive assets Improved search, navigation and reader participation

7. 1.1.1 250,000 articles. Three Editors. Do the Math. Extract your articles from their current content store.2.2 Generate article metadata using one of the Calais tools or your own code. Drop us a note to speed things up..3.3 Load the generated metadata back to your content store.4.4 Expose the generated tags to users linked to search functionality.5.5 Consider implementing a user feedback mechanism Use Calais to automatically tag your historical archive assets

8. 1 Example Page. Use Calais to automatically tag your historical archive assets

9. Do Get 2 Feed the Monkey. Support Yahoo’s Semantic Search. Use Calais to create microformat metadata for Yahoo! SearchMonkey Better searchability and user experience

10. 2.1.1 Feed the Monkey. Support Yahoo’s Semantic Search. Get a Calais API key.2.2 Download Marmoset – a few lines of PHP code.3.3 Paste Marmoset into your site template.4.4 Wait for the monkey to visit Use Calais to create microformat metadata for Yahoo’s SearchMonkey

11. Do Get 3 Alert on Events – Not Just Keywords Use Calais to drive alerts or feeds based on events – not just keywords Highly targeted notification of key events your users care about

12. 3.1.1 Alert on Events – Not Just Keywords. As you ingest new content send it to Calais.2.2 Parse the Calais results to look for events. ManagementChange, Investment, Merger, etc.3.3 Store the Calais results in your content repository.4.4 Allow your users to specify keywords + events as subscription or feed criteria: ManagementChange + Enron Use Calais to detect and alert on significant events in your content

13. Do Get 4 Do Things Search Can’t. Use Calais to enable semantic knowledge discovery Content Insight

14. 4.1.1 Semantic Analysis. Move beyond the document to the corpus.2.2 Calais your content to generate semantic metadata (note the new simple tags format).3.3 Create a flat file with one row per document.4.4 Use SAS, Excel or other tool to start asking questions: Who are the top 5 CEO’s mentioned in the news in the context of a merger or acquisition? Use Calais to drive statistical analysis of document semantics

15. Do Get 5 Use the Tools. Use Calais’ growing toolkit of end-user ready applications No coding required immediate benefits

16. 5.1.1 Use the Tools. Tagaroo.2.2 Calais on Drupal Use Calais’ End User Tools.3.3 Gnosis

17. 5 Use the Tools. Use Calais’ End User Tools

18. 5 Use the Tools. Use Calais’ End User Tools.2.2 Calais on Drupal

19. 5 Use the Tools. Use Calais’ End User Tools