This is a very cool product from salsaDev which takes us one step closer to the Semantic Web. The salsaAPI 2.0 helps turn unstructured text into smart content. The video below explains it much better than I or even the press release I've attached below. My thanks to Stéphane Croisier (Jahia and also a salsaDev Board Member) for recommending that I take a look at this product.

SalsaAPI 2.0: the next-generation content intelligence engine

Geneva, November 10, 2010 – salsaDev SA is happy to announce it just closed its Series A Financing round exceeding $1 Mio, with institutional and private investors. salsaDev is simultaneously releasing its new product, salsaAPI 2.0 (api.salsadev.com), leveraging the 2nd generation of its flagship technology. salsaAPI automates text analysis and semantic indexing on large volumes of information, helping organizations reach the next level of content intelligence.

The salsaAPI 2.0 offers a powerful RESTful API to index various sources of raw content, automatically enrich it with additional metadata and match it with texts of similar meanings. The product combines a comprehensive set of features into one single offering, including text analysis, intelligent search & discovery and content mining. As opposed to several competitors, the product can be used online or onsite and can be easily embedded within any 3rd party sites or applications.

"Repeatedly my sales and consulting staff find themselves explaining that using duplicate content can and will negatively affect search engine rankings and it is heartbreaking to see clients having to rebuild rankings due to such a simple mistake. As a result, I felt it was time to write this article and hopefully dispel many misled website owners."

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Owen Lovelock from Vamosa wrote to us about his company's products including the free Vamosa Community Edition. In the e-mail below he writes, "I think it would be of great interest and value to your readers and members of this site and would greatly appreciate your help in distributing the news to them".

In appreciation that he didn't post his "message" as comment spam and instead contacted us through the proper channels, I give you Mr. Lovelock's summary regarding his company's free content analysis and migration software...

At Vamosa we recently released a free version of our software - Vamosa Community Edition. It combines the functionality of our leading products Content Analyser and Content Migrator) into a single, freely downloadable content analysis and migration tool. Although Community Edition’s processing engine is limited to 1,000 unique URL’s it will:

• Improve content quality through the removal of duplicate and out-dated content
• Enhance content via the application of relevant metadata
• Apply taxonomy and classification to content
• Export all content to XML
  

As I said it is free to download from www.vamosa.com. The main objective of the product is to increase awareness of the issues of content analysis and migration and the benefits an automated approach can offer. In distributing our software free of charge we hope to achieve this in the wider content management community.

Owen Lovelock
www.vamosa.com
+44 (0)141 574 2518 (UK)