KR hendrik

The calls I mentioned above are detailed at the link associated with this post (http://labs.daylife.com/semanticweb.html), and don’t require authentication unlike the free or pay versions of our API.

Regards,
Ken Ellis

These are early days in the news API’s, it is actually good that they guys have their APIs because they are still innovating. This is the time to explore and innovate rather than confirming to a standard API. Classic example is no of words in an article, not sure which one offers it but one of has and reminder don’t.

But your bigger point is well taken! They could/should offer an mapping to the linked data space. It will lead to dream of the semantic web coming true.

Think of this scenario: Find tickets to a metro in India near the ocean that hasnt had a terrorism in 12 months

Kayak API + Weather API + News API + geonames API

News API should very clear knock mumbai out of the picture because the terrorism quotient would be high for mumbai. You think Kayak will not pay a portion of its sales to the News API provider?

So this is the time to innovate so lets not stifle innovation? In fact I would suggest that they media do a better job of standardizing data on their pages like contributors, co-authors. Way too many of them have no standard way to even do this.

Back in the day my grandpa used to be able to follow his select 3 journalist/columnist. Even though technology has progressed so much it is not trivial for a nontechie person to do this same in their web site. Something is fundamentally wrong.

Matt McAlister,
I would request that you folks open up your taxonomy. I am sure there are some jewels in there that could contribute to the bigger news taxonomy.

BTW we are exploring all of these ideas in our startup based out of this small town called bangalore

Thanks for providing a platform for continuing this discussion. While it is painful to see icons of news media go through this turbulence, exciting times lie ahead!

Cheers,
Arjun

yeah, I know that both have left the door open, which is a very good thing! I really hope something great comes out of it eventually! Probably I allowed too much of my momentary frustration to get out in the comment.

We worked a lot on large scale multi-domain cross-publisher data integration and we know it is not easy. But some heuristics and machine learning can get you very far quickly. We did initial version of guardian tagswikipedia mappings internally…

About help… I think you already know what our engine can do regarding disambiguation to LOD, finding entities in unstructured text, etc., so we’d be glad to help!

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Matt

while we are London based company, me & whole development team is in Slovenia (feel free to visit, it’s a great place!

Peter, I am also interested in what you are working on at Broadersheet?

Generally we try to persuade people to join the Linking Open Data and link their data with existing ones. Also, we’re not a strong believers in ‘grand semantic web’ vision, but using URIs as global identifiers and some semi-global vocabulary makes things much easier to integrate.

Btw: we also offer an API, do you know it?

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