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Pingar has developed semantic search solutions for enterprises. Pingar’s document analysis solution helps companies discover new value from masses of unstructured data.

In Pingar’s case, its API will allow a company’s existing software programs to work with Pingar’s advanced data analysis and search technology to manage the company’s unstructured electronic data. Unstructured data can include: documents, webpages, emails, news or any kind of text. Companies will be able to review massive amounts of data with the touch of a button, rather than having the staff do these tasks by hand – saving valuable time.

From March 8. Pingar’s API will be available free to software developers for a limited development period to enable developers to work with Pingar’s tools to build specific solutions for their clients.

With Pingar’s API companies can utilise:

• Rapid Discovery – a tool that can be added to existing search engines for rapid query refinement and results assessment.
• Entity Extraction – a suite of cutting-edge tools that turn documents into useful lists of entities including people’s names, telephone numbers, credit card numbers and organisations.
• Content Analysis – provides precision key-word extraction and on-click document summarization and sanitation.

Pingar API tools will help companies make better sense of the data they own and deliver smarter, time-saving search and data analysis.

You can find all the information at http://www.pingar.com

SA-REST is a simple and open microformat for enhancing Web resources with additional semantic information. In addition to HTML and XHTML, the SA-REST approach can also be used to enrich Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. SA-REST is one of several open microformat standards.

Although mashups fully embrace the idea of customization on the Web, read-write is another story. The complexity of application development using Javascript makes it hard for average developers to create new mashups and to customize the existing ones. To solve this problem, several companies are developing tools for mashup creation that require little or no programming knowledge. These tools, exemplified by Yahoo! pipes, IBM’s QEDwiki and Google’s Mashup Editor, facilitate the selection of some number of RESTful Web services or other Web resources and chain them together by piping one service’s output into the next service’s input while filtering content and making slight format changes.

SA-REST is a microformat to add additional meta-data to (but not limited to) REST API descriptions in HTML and XHTML. Developers can directly embed meta-data from various models such an ontology, taxonomy or a tag cloud into their API descriptions. The embedded meta-data can be used to improve search (for example: perform faceted search for APIs), data mediation (in conjunction with XML annotation) as well as help in easier integration of services to create mashups.

SA-REST submission to W3C can be found here: http://www.w3.org/Submission/SA-REST/

More information about SA-REST can be found here: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/SA-REST