Configure Refinitiv Intelligent Tagging Open Calais as your content tagging provider

Abstract

Configure Refinitiv Intelligent Tagging Open Calais as the provider for Sitecore Content Tagging.

Refinitiv Intelligent Tagging analyzes the semantic content of input content using a combination of statistical, machine-learning, and custom pattern-based methods. The algorithms developed by the Text Metadata Services (TMS) group at Thomson Reuters output highly accurate and detailed metadata. For more detailed information, see the official Refinitiv Intelligent Tagging website.

The free Refinitiv Intelligent Tagging Open Calais tagging provider lets you use Open Calais to tag your content to increase its value, accessibility, and interoperability. When you establish an Open Calais account, your Sitecore implementation with Sitecore Content Tagging can send content to Open Calais. When the content is returned from Open Calais, your Sitecore implementation can extract four different types of tags, which are categorized in Open Calais as Social Tags, Industries, Topics, and Entities.

To configure Open Calais as your content tagging discovery provider:

  1. Register a PermID (Thomson Reuters Permanent Identifier) account at https://permid.org/.

    Note

    After you activate your account, you receive an email with your token for API access.

  2. Ensure that the App_Config/Sitecore/ContentTagging/Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.config file is enabled.

  3. Create a patch for settings from the App_Config/Sitecore/ContentTagging/Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.config file that: 

    • Ensures that the Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.CalaisEndpoint setting points to an actual endpoint.

    • Fills in the Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.CalaisAccessToken setting with the API access token from Thomas Reuters. 

    • Fills in the Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.CalaisLanguage setting with a content language. Currently English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish are supported. For more information, see the Refinitiv documentation about supported languages.

  4. You can also modify the following configuration settings using the patch file:

    • Set the Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.SelectiveTags setting to limit the output to selected metadata tag types.

    • Set the Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.SocialTagsResultSize setting to limit the total number of social tags in the output.

    • Set the Sitecore.ContentTagging.OpenCalais.SocialTagsImportanceThreshold setting to only include topics above a minimum importance level in the output.

    Note

    For more information about these settings, see the Refinitiv documentation.