Thomson Reuters, a US-based provider of information for businesses and professionals, and web software solutions provider Phase2 Technology, US, have debuted three Calais modules for integration with Drupal. Drupal is an open source content management platform that supports a variety of websites ranging from blogs and online publishers to large interactive communities. Calais is Thomson Reuters' Semantic Web Service that enables publishers to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in their content to increase its search accessibility on the web.
The Calais modules for Drupal are feature-rich, highly intuitive and designed to make it easy for Drupal users to automatically metatag their content. This is expected to generate rich semantic metadata that can be shared via a simple key, and integrated into the larger content universe.
The modules use the power of Calais to suggest terms for association within a piece of content. They also enable Drupal users to integrate their own publisher- and user-generated metadata as they go forward, to customise their installation. The Calais modules for Drupal are currently available at http://drupal.org/project/opencalais.
