This document is a report on a Scoping Study of Semantic Tagging Services for the Australian
academic research sector. The study identifies technologies and technical infrastructure to
enable the semantic mining, analysis and linking of knowledge contained within distributed
collections of resources. It focuses on tagging digital text resources with the names of
historically or culturally significant people, places, dates, events and topics/concepts. The report
discusses:
• What semantic tagging technologies/services currently exist;
• The maturity and desirability of these technologies;
• The optimum infrastructure that would be necessary to provide such a service;
• The optimum architecture and integrated set of services;
• Possible service providers;
• Recommendations for next steps