According to the latest news, Thompson-Reuters has reported that with OpenCalais, a metatagging service, will be integrated with an Oracle database. Here is how it works: first a number of raw text (unstructured) documents are identified in a database, filesystem or across a network, then OpenCalais is invoked via a web-service, which returns a set of RDF triples which are back then saved in a RDF triple store.
This probably means a beginning of the end of the extra effort needed to semantically annotate the enormous number of web documents that are deployed all over the Internet. With such possibilities at service, web masters could finally tag their web pages through a single click - and bother no more. Businesses will benefit from this too. Their scattered knowledge bases can now be easily integrated into a single entity - which could possess its own inference engine and further utilize the semantics it gets.
Currently OpenCalais claim that they are processing between 3 and 5 million documents per day, and they will soon attract even more developers to use their service.
Will this be the trigger to catalyze the Semantic (r)evolution ?
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