The folks over at Thompson Reuters announced their new Semantic Proxy service today. With full coverage by Paul Miller over on ZDNet, this could be very exciting news for the Semantic Web space indeed.

In short, Semantic Proxy creates metadata from any online resource. There’s a working demo over on their site, which will search your site and bring back instances of metadata, including relevance. Although it’s beta, it still offers some incredible potential benefits. The Calais team has promised that their Semantic Proxy service will be bringing proper Linked Data uri’s by the end of this quarter. As Paul said: “The cloud just got an awful lot bigger, an awful lot more current, and an awful lot more powerful.”