Tom Tague from Calais here.

Just a short note on a couple of things.

First – yes the URIs will be resolvable at the end of the year. We’re going to focus at populating interesting endpoint information and links to other linked data assets for company, geography and a few other types for that release – we’ll continue to expand the endpoints over time.

Second – yes, we really are going to publish the ontology at the end of the year. This required a little more work than we expected around naming standardization and other boring stuff – but it’s coming. We have to figure out the exact language – but we plan to make it open and usable by all.

Last – Terms of Service. We’ll be revisiting these in the next few weeks with goals of 1) improving privacy safeguards, and 2) removing ambiguity where possible. Ambiguity in TOS’s is scary – and we want to eradicate it wherever possible.

Thanks for creating and making the sample code available – we appreciate anything that can jump start people’s usage of Calais.

I’d also encourage you to jump into events and facts. While entity extraction is cool – the real power of Calais starts to become more apparent when you begin playing with the relationships contained in the source material.

Regards,

Hi Ed, … [just] wanted to say that the OpenCalais ontology is supposed to be published ‘in late Q4′ – hopefully it’ll be under a completely open license, but we’ll see…http://opencalais.com/node/489