COMPLETE PUBLISHER SUITE UNVEILED FOR DRUPAL PLATFORM.Phase2 Technology and the Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative have debuted OpenPublish, a complete Calais-powered publishing suite for the popular open source platform. The service is available at http://www.opensourceopenminds.com/OpenPublish. Tailored to meet the needs of today's online publishers and media providers, OpenPublish offers semantic metatagging from OpenCalais and a seamless connection to the Linked Data cloud (1) A collection of words that are displayed in a font size or different color (or both) that represent their value in relation to each other. For example, a data cloud of countries would show China in the largest font because it has the largest population. . It taps the power of Drupal as a social publishing platform and supports everything from news coverage to Web 2.0 trends, social publishing and the increasingly in-demand topic hubs. "In today's challenging media environment, publishers are struggling to make their online services more flexible and engaging -- to keep users coming back," said Jeff Walpole, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Phase2 Technology. "Publishers are being asked to do more with less while competing with myriad new content sources. Conventional content management systems are proving inadequate, making open source solutions more attractive than ever." OpenPublish offers a solution for publishers struggling to keep up with rapidly expanding technology and user expectations. It allows editors to rethink online news presentation and use readily available tools to reach a larger audience, simultaneously publishing stories to a CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. while integrating news and open data sources in ways not previously possible. "OpenPublish empowers content creators See content provider. to connect to the Linked Content Economy, a rapidly evolving ecosystem of enhanced and connected content that puts the Semantic Web A collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data on the Web. The Semantic Web uses XML tags that conform to Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language formats (see RDF and OWL). and Linked Data to work in everyday media," said Thomas Tague, Calais Initiative lead, Thomson Reuters. "We make it easy to enhance the value of content, improve the user experience and extend syndication to next-generation search engines, directories, social media applications and more." OpenPublish features automated metatagging with the Thomson Reuters Calais Web Service and helps publishers leverage suggestive tagging, geo-coding and relevancy ranking. It also enables publishers to tag entire libraries of archived content within hours for better search results, which can lead to more traffic and superior content monetization Monetization The securitization of the gross revenues of a contract. . "Semantic technologies In software, semantic technology encode meanings separately from data and content files, and separately from application code. This enables machines as well as people to understand, share and reason with them at execution time. used with the Drupal platform help publishers enhance the user experience of their web properties by improving search rankings and making content easier to find," said Dries Buytaert Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978) is an open-source software programmer and the founder of the Drupal CMS.[1] He still heads the Drupal project.[2][3] , creator of the Drupal open source project and Acquia co-founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "We welcome the OpenPublish suite to our community and encourage its future development." OpenPublish's out-of-the-box functionality, with easy integration of popular features like topic hubs, and its automated metadata integration make it the ideal platform for the rapid deployment of major publishing sites. It also serves the growing market of blogs, special interest news sites and topical microsites that seek to compete with major media to break stories in their niche. OpenPublish is available now. Learn more about it and download the modules at http://www.opensourceopenminds.com/OpenPublish. Phase2 Technology also offers the Calais Collection, a modular integration of the Calais Web service into the Drupal platform. Now in version 3.0, the Collection has been upgraded to support Calais 4.0 and its connection to the Linked Data cloud. For more information, visit http://drupal.org/project/opencalais. About Phase2 Technology Phase2 is nationally recognized for providing technology leadership on the web for non-profit, commercial, and media publishing clients using open source technology including Java and the Drupal social publishing platform. The experienced team of consultants is known for specialty in content management systems, open data integration, community applications, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , and custom application development. Phase2 practices our own AgileApproach, an agile development See agile software development. methodology that ensures quality and time to market of our software solutions. For more information, visit http://www.phase2technology.com or call 703/548-6050 ext. 100. About the Thomson Reuters Calais Initiative The Calais initiative supports the interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. of content and advances Thomson Reuters mission to deliver intelligent information. It leverages the company's investment in semantic technologies to offer free metadata generation services, robust developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. It also gives users an automatic connection to the Linked Data cloud and a global metadata transport layer that helps them tap next-generation search services, directories and social media applications. For more information, visit http://wwwOpenCalais.com or call 415/202-3523. |
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