OpenText Joins Semantic Web Race
March 25, 2011
Nstein, the Quebec based content administration merchant recently acquired by Open Text, announced the release of a new version of the popular Semantic Navigation software. In a notice on the company’s blog, “Open Text Semantic Navigation Now Available.” The write up presented a lengthy laundry list of features and functions.
Boiling the article down to a sentence or two proved difficult. We believe that OpenText now offers a crawling and indexing system that supports faceted navigation. But there is an important twist. The semantic tool has a search engine optimization and sentiment analysis component as well. The article asserts:
[A licensee can] enrich content–including huge volumes of uncategorized content–by automatically analyzing and tagging it with metadata to help discern relevant and insightful keywords, topics, summaries, and sentiments.
The list of features and functions is lengthy. There is additional information available. Public information is available at this link, but you will need an OpenText user name and password to access the content at this link.
If the product performs according to the descriptions in the source article, a number of OpenText’s competitors will be faced with significant competition.
Stephen E Arnold, March 25, 2011
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There’s an additional, quite interesting facet: Cloud deployment. The user doesn’t have to install software to use OTSN.
For information, the best place to start may be http://semanticnavigation.opentext.com/ .
(Disclosure: Open Text is a consulting client.)
Seth
Nuts, I had forgotten the whole reason I started to comment:
Your headline is off. OTSN semanticizes enterprise content, but it is not a Semantic Web technology, it doesn’t harvest that content into a Semantic Web attached RDF triple store nor, I believe, does it bring Semantic Web resources to OTSN users.
There is far, far more to Semantics than there is to the Semantic Web!
Hi Seth,
OTSN is actually turned toward the Semantic Web.
First, entity extraction can provide a link to remote RDF resources and among the collection of widgets available, this remote information can be leveraged to enhance the search & discovery experience. For example a widget can connect to the Freebase RDF endpoint and the information provided for a given Semantic Web resource can be exposed to the OTSN users.
Also, the API provided by OTSN is Web 3.0 compliant. This RDF/XML API allows to get presentation agnostic search results enriched with semantic facets, related documents, sentiment analysis and more. We can see this in action at http://otc.saas.nstein.net/opentext-en/search/theme/rdf-xml?q=semantic+navigation
Third, remember that semantic annotations extracted by OTCA (the semantic annotator integrated to OTSN) can also be used to enrich online content with RDFa micro-formats. This is currently one of best and easy way to participate to the Semantic Web. Querying the Web with advanced request will be made possible (e.g. “Show me the last online resources available taking about an American politician involved into a trial”)
This being said, I agree with you Seth that OpenText focus is more to “semanticizes enterprise content”. This is a more concrete use case. Better geared with OpenText’s expertise.