Welcome

The Entity Describer (E.D.) is a mechanism for intersecting the Semantic Web with the normal Web. It lets Connotea users tag resources on the Web with terms from structured knowledge representation and organization systems. In the first version, E.D. drew its semantic tags directly from the ontologies of the semantic web. In the present version, these special tags are gathered from the millions of topics in the Freebase database. For more information please browse about E.D.

To use the Entity Describer

Create a free Connotea account and login to it
Add the E.D. bookmarklet to your browser by dragging this image -> into your bookmarks bar. If that doesn't make sense or there is a problem, please refer to the bookmarklet help page.
Once the bookmarlet is installed, use ED just like you normally would Connotea: browse to a page that you want to add to your collection, click on the bookmarklet and ED to Connotea!

Acknowledgements

Data and code from Freebase is used to drive the Entity Describer.

Freebase – The World's Database
Freely licensed under CC-BY.

The ED bookmarklet concept and code was adapted from Connotea's Add2Connotea bookmarklet

Connotea – Organize. Share. Discover.
Released under the GNU GPL.

ED is hosted at the University of Windsor, thanks to Matthew Links and William Crosby.
Good is supported by a Pacific Century Graduate Student Fellowship, a University of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship, and by an award to the Better Biomarkers in Transplantation project from Genome British Columbia, in part through Genome Canada.
Kawas is funded through an award from Genome Prairie and Genome Alberta, in part through Genome Canada
Core funding for the laboratory and related research activities has been granted from the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation for BC and Yukon.