Zemanta API: from text to LOD

Hi,

I am Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta. This is my first post to this list.
I've read the discussion about commercial announcements just a day ago,
so I hope this this announcement is relevant enough albeit it comes from
a for-profit company.

I'd like to announce that Zemanta today launched a semantic API that is
able to take plain text and disambiguate most important entities found
to their meanings in Linking Open Data (currently dbPedia, MusicBrainz,
Semantic CrunchBase and Freebase).

As far as we know this is first such undertaking of this scale.

API is free to use up to 10k calls per day (default limit is 1k, email
needs to be sent to raise it). Response can be in XML, JSON or RDF/XML.

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Developer info can be found at http://developer.zemanta.com and less
technical explanations at http://www.zemanta.com/api

I am very interested if this will make any new types of Mashups happen.
Also I am interested in feedback on RDF/XML format/ontology.

I see ourselves a bit like a stargate portal from unstructured text into
the LOD, enabling LOD to be used in broader number of situations.

Comments welcome :)

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Andraz Tori, CTO
Zemanta Ltd, London, Ljubljana
www.zemanta.com
mail: andraz@zemanta.com
tel: +386 41 515 767
twitter: andraz, skype: minmax_test

Received on Tuesday, 9 December 2008 18:30:20 UTC