OpenCalais from Reuters

I'm also interested in this, and willing to start development. In what ways could their API be used?

For reference here are some of the capabilities listed on their Wordpress bounty:

1. Tag auto suggestion: Using the content of the blog entry the plugin will provide a list of suggested semantic tags. For example, if the post talks about company "a" buying company "b" the plugin would suggest "Acquisition", "Company A" and "Company B" as potential tags

2. Semantic cloud: We all love tag clouds and we'd like to take it a step further. The plugin should support the generation of a configurable semantic tag cloud of entities and facts derived from the blog's content

3. GUID Incorporation: The Calais web service returns a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) for each document submitted. The plugin should modify the RSS feed for the site to incorporate the GUID in a TBD location.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/8801

FunnyMonkey
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Hi all, this is Tom Tague. I'm the leader for the Calais initiative at Reuters.

Well, it's been a long day. We got Slashdotted (careful what you wish for) and signed up about 400 new developers for the Calais service today alone. I've spent the day fighting fires and decided to take a moment and catch up on Calais related blog posts.

What a pleasure to see that Drupal has picked up on the idea. Building partnerships with the larger CMS platforms is an absolute top priority on our list. We just hadn't had time to get to it yet.

So, I'd like to ask all of you - how can the Calais team help make this a reality? We're not Drupal-savvy so we don't know yet how the Drupal community works - but we're ready to learn.

We'd like to see one or more extremely high quality modules developed that leverage Calais' capabilities in Drupal. Maybe that's semantic tagging, maybe faceted news navigation, maybe something else. Frankly - you'll have better ideas than we will.

We can offer expedited technical support, an open ear for suggestions on how to improve Calais and perhaps even financial support if there is an established mechanism for that.

Would love to hear your ideas and feedback.

Regards,

Tom Tague
tague@opencalais.com