Hello, my name is Martin Hiller and I am Director General of REEEP, the Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership.
REEEP is a market catalyst for clean energy in developing countries and emerging economies.
We think that easy access to information is an essential driver for the development of clean energy markets.
Lately a lot of people in the energy and development field have asked me about the new application we have built:
which is called the reegle tagging API.
This video clip explains what is behind this concept
and my colleague Florian Bauer, our IT Director, will take you through it.
Thanks, Martin!
Most of us in the climate and development sectors experience at first hand the information dilemma:
the explosion of content in our data warehouses, up in the cloud, on servers and in inboxes.
But what is the content of all that content? - Often, we have simply no idea.
What we are facing is not knowledge. It is not even information.
What we are facing today is data. Big, unstructured data.
All of us have vast libraries at our command. But many of these libraries lack a proper catalogue.
And this is where our reegle tagging API comes into play.
The reegle tagging API is a service that structures and enriches your documents,
thereby turning information into knowledge – knowledge that is essential for smarter decisions.
Apart from that, it helps others find and use your documents and your information.
Here's how it works:
A file, article or document is sent to the reegle tagging API, where its content is analyzed.
The most relevant terms are extracted and can be used to tag and structure the information.
In addition to words and phrases, the reegle tagging API is also able to extract geographic information
for example allowing to filter documents by city or country.
For the most relevant extractions the reegle tagging API provides contextual information
such as definitions, explanations and synonyms, based on our unique clean energy and climate thesaurus.
It can also enrich your documents with links to related articles from our content pool.
In turn, you can also have your documents added to the pool, making them available for others.
A growing number of organisations are already benefiting from the reegle tagging API.
For instance:
weAdapt, a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform which uses the reegle API for consistent tagging, ensuring consistency of message.
Eldis, a major resource for policy and research documents in the development sector,
uses the API to provide readers with synonyms and definitions at a glance.
The open energy information portal "OpenEI" which is managed by NREL has built a widget
based on the reegle API that presents visitors with appropriate glossary terms and related articles.
To find out what the reegle tagging API can do for you and how we can help you use our services,
visit http://api.reegle.info or send an email to api@reegle.info.