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24 Sep 2008

Thomson Reuters Debuts Commercial Options for its Calais Web Service to Meet Publisher and Enterprise Demand

Meets Market Need for Metadata Generation with Increased Capacity, Affordable Licensing and the Option to Deploy Calais Within the Enterprise

EmTech’08 Conference – Cambridge, MA – In response to publisher and enterprise demand, Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, is offering commercial options for its Calais Web service, bringing reliable metadata generation services to companies of all kinds.

Found at OpenCalais.com, the Calais Web service makes it easy to tag the people, places, facts and events in content, increasing its relevance and search accessibility. The new commercial options offer increased capacity and customization for publishers and businesses that require service-level agreements and/or a deployed version of Calais that can live behind their firewall.

“The Calais Web service, its open API, and the resources at OpenCalais.com, will always be free to both commercial and non-commercial developers,” said Thomas Tague, Calais initiative lead at Thomson Reuters. “The commercial options were designed specifically in response to demand from users that require enhanced service levels or on-site installation to support their business models. We are pleased to provide them with the customization, scalability and peace of mind they need in order to build Calais into their networks, sites and services.”

The Calais suite of services now includes OpenCalais; Calais Professional; Calais Professional for Publishers, and Calais Enterprise.

OpenCalais includes the free Calais Web service, its open API, and the resources at OpenCalais.com. It offers the full Calais functionality, and enables users to submit up to 40,000 content transactions per day at a maximum rate of four transactions per second.*
Calais Professional provides the same OpenCalais functionality with a high-performance service-level agreement, 24x7 monitoring, an increased daily transaction limit of 100,000, and an enhanced rate of 20 transactions per second. Additional transaction volume blocks of up to 2,000,000 transactions per day are also available.
Calais Professional for Publishers extends Calais Professional to meet the needs of larger scale publishers and is available as an annual contract.
ClearForest On-Premise Solutions are installed, customized versions of the Calais Web service - which is built on ClearForest technologies - within a company's processing environment that can easily scale to tens of millions of content transactions per day and many thousands of transactions per minute. In addition to the core OpenCalais functionality, ClearForest On-Premise Solutions give users the ability to modify their instance of the underlying metadata generation engine to create new entities and relations, and to incorporate user lexicons.

Related Calais toolkits and applications include:

SemanticProxy, a free Calais application that makes it easy to generate rich semantic metadata for Web pages by pasting or feeding URLs into the tool at SemanticProxy.com.
The Calais Marmoset Toolkit, a simple yet powerful way to generate metadata for Yahoo! Search’s SearchMonkey, as well as other metacrawlers and semantic applications.
The Calais Tagaroo Plugin, which helps WordPress bloggers metatag their blog posts – and add relevant photos from Flickr – to increase both visual appeal and search accessibility.
The Calais Modules for Drupal, which enable Drupal users to tag their content, generating semantic metadata that can be shared via a simple key with the larger content universe.

All of the above services employ Calais 3.0, the most robust and high-performance version of the Calais Web service to date. To learn more, go to OpenCalais.com/blog.

Notes:
* We evaluate requests for higher content transaction limits in the OpenCalais Web service from academic or other non-profit or experimental users on a case-by-case basis.

About the Calais Initiative
The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, please visit OpenCalais.com.

About Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries. Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TRI); Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: TRI); London Stock Exchange (LSE: TRIL); and Nasdaq (NASDAQ: TRIN). For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com.