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Calais enhances your content with rich semantic metadata. Using your content as a starting point, you can utilize Calais to automatically add metadata such as entities (people, places, organizations, etc.), facts (John Doe work for Acme Corporation as the CEO), and events (a natural disaster of type landslide happened on date x). That metadata is generated in industry-standard formats that ease integration with whatever commercial, open source or proprietary content management system you are using. Metadata in and of itself is not too interesting. Where things get more interesting is what you can do with it.

Bloggers want... Blogging can be a business a hobby or a passion. Regardless of why you blog, it should be fun for you and engaging for your readers. Calais offers several tools that can improve your blog's tagging, incorporate great images and make your blog's contents more searchable. Calais for WordPress Meet Tagaroo, the Calais plugin for WordPress blogs. As you are writing your post, Tagaroo automatically analyzes it and suggests both tags and images from Flickr to enhance your post. You can select tags you like, incorporate them into your post, and then automatically search Flickr for images to complement your writing. Tagaroo has its own home, where you can read about it in more detail, download the plugin, and visit the forums. Calais for Drupal Drupal is clearly among the hottest content management systems out there. The folks at Phase2Technology have built a great Drupal module that makes Calais functionality available to the Drupal CMS platform. The module overview located in our Gallery will give you a quick overview of how to incorporate this tool into your Drupal installation. Riding the Semantic Wave with Yahoo If you're tuned in to the Semantic Web buzz, Yahoo's recent announcement that they will crawl websites and index semantic metadata is a big deal. Over time this will allow much more powerful and focused search capabilities - and we want you to be part of it. But there's a problem. Most bloggers don't have the tools or the time to create rich semantic metadata to identify the people, organizations, places and other items in their content. So we've built a simple tool that will do it for you.

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais. Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.