From announce-return-1570-apmail-announce-archive=apache.org@apache.org Mon Oct 1 12:02:29 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-announce-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-announce-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36B13DFCF for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 35616 invoked by uid 500); 1 Oct 2012 12:02:18 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-announce-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 35268 invoked by uid 500); 1 Oct 2012 12:02:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact announce-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list announce@apache.org Delivered-To: moderator for announce@apache.org Received: (qmail 30217 invoked by uid 99); 1 Oct 2012 12:01:11 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 304608.65978.bm@omp1020.mail.ird.yahoo.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1349092842; bh=ErqD75NzNHkoDBxenyqvLbZm8tLBrbMKGKbhzftBKFw=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-RocketYMMF:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Jo7GB7fugA+iHwbUNMjLbomMSWGq5jwKmuhONwF46FPlkCSIO/FcorlmTVAn40YBMHZrx6Q9YtOJI//BD/t8vYCbpDtPF7J7rI+111wgrlpvZA8JXz5F8w0QthPAfVcxoS67q/gqWwhQhxNhZxtUpgZmx21MGUZBSD5dPM+tpGM= X-YMail-OSG: .VLul00VM1m42rQSYjiXQtDV2N2IPRBJq18mJKvSQXQWVzk 2IokbUNf6 X-RocketYMMF: sallykhudairi X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.121.434 Message-ID: <1349092842.28660.YahooMailNeo@web29705.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:00:42 +0100 (BST) From: Sally Khudairi Reply-To: Sally Khudairi Subject: [ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Stanbol as a Top-Level Project To: "announce@apache.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org >> this message is also available online at=A0http://s.apache.org/ul1=0A=0A= =0AEuropean Union-seeded modular Open Source framework enables and extends = semantic content management.=0A=0AForest Hill, MD -- 1 October 2012 -- The = Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, a= nd incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today ann= ounced that Apache Stanbol has graduated from the Apache Incubator to becom= e a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and pr= oducts have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and pri= nciples.=0A=0ACreated to extend traditional content management systems with= semantic services, Apache Stanbol offers semantic services for automatic c= ontent enhancement, a process where plain text is automatically enriched wi= th meta-data, e.g. about persons, places and organizations, from external d= ata sources. Stanbol's customized enhancement engines and process chains ca= n be designed for user-specific enhancement tasks, enabling automatic conte= nt annotation and linking.=0A=0A"The graduation also acknowledges the succe= ss of Apache Stanbol in bringing semantic technologies and content manageme= nt communities together," explained Fabian Christ, Vice President of Apache= Stanbol.=0A=0AProviding reusable components that can be used to enhance co= ntent automatically is an important step in lifting existing content to a l= evel that makes it more useable for all kinds of tasks, including a better = search experience. Adding meta-data to content and linking the content to o= ther existing resources adds the kind of value that could make the differen= ce in many industrial use cases.=0A=0A"Searchbox is leveraging the Stanbol = framework for the Fusepool project as the core framework for processing uns= tructured and plain text information sources," explained St=E9phane Gamard = from Searchbox. "Thanks to Stanbol, different information sources can be pr= ocessed, semantically enhanced and delivered to a front-end web application= for an intuitive and advanced user experience."=0A=0AInitially developed w= ithin the European Union's IKS EU Research Project, Stanbol entered the Apa= che Incubator in November 2010 and was quickly embraced as an ideal framewo= rk that makes semantic technologies useable for developers of content manag= ement systems. The Project provides a set of predefined enhancement engines= including engines for language detection, named entity recognition, and en= gines for linking entities to linked open data (LOD) sources like DBPedia o= r geonames.org.=0A=0A"CELI France, thanks to the integration with Stanbol, = we were able to integrate our curriculum vitae (CV) parsing technology with= main stream open source document management system, said Luca Dini from CE= LI. =A0"Moreover the final user experience was empowered by automatic linki= ng with external LOD sources, which allowed true semantic reasoning over in= formation linguistically extracted from CVs".=0A=0A"GOSS Interactive demons= trated integration with Apache Stanbol to automatically add semantic mark-u= p and additional meta-data to managed content while it was still an incubat= or project," said Gary Ratcliffe from GOSS. "The graduation ensures the ava= ilability of Stanbol as a platform on which new semantic services can be de= veloped in the future."=0A=0AAvailability and Oversight=0AApache Stanbol so= ftware is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self= -selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management = Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including commu= nity development and product releases. Apache Stanbol source code, document= ation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://stanbol= .apache.org/=0A=0A=0AA timeline of the project's history through graduation= is also available from the Apache Incubator.=0A=0AAbout The Apache Softwar= e Foundation (ASF)=0AEstablished in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation over= sees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apach= e HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software. Through the = ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way", more than 400 individ= ual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely= available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwid= e: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License= ; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring i= nitiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, train= ings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)=A9 not-for-profit charity, funded by= individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technolog= y, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, I= BM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VM= ware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @= TheASF on Twitter.=0A=0A=0A"Apache",=A0"Stanbol",=A0"Apache Stanbol", and "= ApacheCon" are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other bran= ds and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.=0A=0A# # #= =0A=0ACONTACT: Sally Khudairi=0A=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Vice President=0A=A0 =A0= =A0 =A0 =A0The Apache Software Foundation=0A=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0press@apach= e.org=0A=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0+1 617 921 8656=0A=0A=0A>> for instructions on h= ow to unsubscribe from=A0Apache News and Announcements emails, please see= =A0http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce=0A