Mike’s Digital Laboratory

So now I have a notebook bulging with new things to try. I think I’m in a state of semantic shock. I debated (yes, with myself) whether I should make one big list of stuff I learned from the conference and place it in one big blog post, or just tackle things one at a time. One at a time wins. So today I installed Tagaroo on this web site and will try it out on a number of posts including this one. The idea is that Tagaroo sends your post off to the tagaroo server, analyzes what you write and sends back suggested tags to use to add semantic metadata to your post. The semantic tagging is then available via RDF and the my site becomes part of the semantic web.

Although it’s all quite a blur my notes seem to indicate I caught Thomas Tague’s presentation on Calais home to many projects (including Tagaroo). Calais is backed by the publishing giant Thomson Reuters. What will they do with all this semantic data from the worlds bloggers who choose to use Tagaroo. Only good things they promise. The data will be kept confidential and they claim they are not selling it. Ok, I’m a trusting sort of fellow so here it goes.

Oh, did I mention Tagaroo will also offer suggested images from Flickr to add to your post. Here’s one I like: