Calais for Drupal

Early in 2008, the development team at Phase2 discovered Calais and immediately recognized it as a powerful tool for publishers. With the encouragement of the Thomson Reuters Calais team, we’ve developed the suite of modules as shown on this site.

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 (found at http://drupal.org/project/opencalais) are feature-rich, highly intuitive and designed to make it easy for Drupal users to automatically metatag their content, generating rich Semantic metadata that can be shared via a simple key and integrated into the larger content universe.

The Calais project is a natural fit for our experience implementing Drupal on media and publishing sites. We’ll continue our work on Calais and are excited about the functionality this will provide the news and information business. We believe this Calais offering is easy to use, even for a non-technical person. It is feature-rich and highly intuitive.

The modules use the power of Calais to suggest terms for association within a piece of content, similar to how del.icio.us recommends relevant tags. They also enable Drupal users to integrate their own publisher- and user-generated metadata as they go forward, to truly customize their installation.

Calais is especially helpful for publishers looking to find innovative, quick and easy ways to increase content value. Calais enhances your content with rich semantic metadata. Using your own original content you can use Calais to automatically add metadata such as entities (people, places, organizations, etc.), facts (John Doe works for Acme Corporation as the CEO), and events (a natural disaster of type landslide happened on date x).

When being asked to produce more with fewer resources, a quick-tagging Semantic tool like these Drupal modules for Calais can really make a difference. And, it can improve searchability, syndication segmentation and even tag your archived content that no one can find.

Click here to download the modules
Click here to see examples of how content might look when the Calais modules are used.
Click here for a screen cast demo.