WHAT IS OPEN SAHARA?
Open Sahara is a free webservice that can analyse, index and semantically enrich the content of documents, websites, and blogs.
Additionally, Open Sahara offers professional services for software development related to text-mining, indexing, kowledge extraction, semantic plugins and applications.
Open Sahara has consultants that help with business development related to innovative media products and webservices.
HOW DOES OPEN SAHARA WORK?
The Open Sahara webservice is pretty simple. Its API accepts a user provided text or URL, and returns semantic information about the content in the provided document.
Open Sahara uses smart language processing and statistical algorithms to extract entities, facts, and events from the texts that it analyses.
Open Sahara does not store the texts analysed for its users. However, the semantic metadata that Open Sahara extracts from the texts may be stored by Open Sahara.
WHO CAN USE OPEN SAHARA?
Everyone may use the Open Sahara webservice. It is open for scientific, personal, and commercial goals.
The semantic metadata that Open Sahara extracts from text can be used by bloggers, journalists, and software engineers to develop innovative products and services or Apps.
Open Sahara participates in various research with the University of Amsterdam and likes to share experiences with universities and businesses.