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I have recently had a chance to look into Open Calais for work purposes. Open Calais is a Reuters-backed web service that returns semantic metadata in RDF format from text it is given.

So when I heard someone had developed a Calais WordPress plugin that suggests tags for your posts based on Open Calais, I thought I'd give it a go.

And what better time to do so than what has become my regular early Saturday morning rendez-vous with stuff I pick up while I make my way through the web during the week and want to play with.

As I am writing this, at the bottom of the WordPress 'Write Post' page there is a 'Get tags' button under a 'Calais Auto Tagger' section.

If I click on the button now [clicks on button] I get a 'Suggestions: web service, Reuters, RDF' followed by a 'Add these tags' button.

If I click on that button now [clicks on button] the suggested tag is added to the 'Tags' section for this post, and I can add more manually if needed.

I would probably have to throw more data to this to test it fully, but hey, if you are into this kind of stuff this is way cool. There is also a version that tags old content.

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