As mentioned a few times in the past, I really enjoy listening to all the interviews that Paul Miller and Danny Ayers conduct for Talis. One I heard recently was an interview with Barak Pridor, CEO of ClearForest (whose Gnosis Firefox plugin has been covered in the past). In the interview Barak talks about Calais. Calais is a web service that automatically attaches rich semantic metadata to submitted content. I am planning to try it out (it returns RDF) with content from bbgm at first. The hope is to create a graph between people and organizations listed on bbgm. Anyway, in the interview Barak says something that resonated quite a bit (not too surprisingly). His words were along the lines of
Value is shifting from raw data/content to analysis and tools built on top of the underlying content
This is one of the central theories of the bbgm philosophy. It’s good to hear an organization like Reuters (ClearForest was acquired by Reuters last year) adhere to that philosophy.
Technorati Tags: ClearForest, Calais, Semantic Web, Value of Data
Calais, Reuters and the changing value of data
As mentioned a few times in the past, I really enjoy listening to all the interviews that Paul Miller and Danny Ayers conduct for Talis. One I heard recently was an interview with Barak Pridor, CEO of ClearForest (whose Gnosis Firefox plugin has been covered in the past). In the interview Barak talks about Calais. Calais is a web service that automatically attaches rich semantic metadata to submitted content. I am planning to try it out (it returns RDF) with content from bbgm at first. The hope is to create a graph between people and organizations listed on bbgm. Anyway, in the interview Barak says something that resonated quite a bit (not too surprisingly). His words were along the lines of
This is one of the central theories of the bbgm philosophy. It’s good to hear an organization like Reuters (ClearForest was acquired by Reuters last year) adhere to that philosophy.
Technorati Tags: ClearForest, Calais, Semantic Web, Value of Data