Zemanta Releases Public Semantic API

Zemanta, a start up from Slovenia, has recently released a ‘public semantic API’ at the Le Web seminar in Paris. It has many attributes, one of which is winning the initial ‘Seedcamp’ contest. Zemanta has also managed to procure financial backing from companies such as ‘Union Square Ventures’, ‘Eden Ventures’ as well as ‘The Accelerator Group’.

Zemanta is a platform whose mission is to aid online data creators by helping them find useful data through the Internet. This data is used to boost the creator’s publications. The Zemanta system accepts blogs and content, such as articles and even pages from websites. It then reads whatever has been input into its system and sends back relevant visuals, intelligent links and keywords.

Depending on what has been fed into the system, Zemanta comes up with links to data and information from websites such as ‘Amazon’, ‘CrunchBase’ , ‘Wikipedia’, ‘Freebase’, ‘MusicBrainz’, ‘Flickr’, ‘Daylife’, as well as networks of the social type.

By releasing its ‘public semantic API’, Zemanta is making its technology available for platforms (of the blogging kind), media organisations and companies that have just started up as well as all those who own content databases. Zemanta is no doubt emerging as a comprehensive platform.