The document presents a workshop on named entity recognition (NER) and the NERD ontology, which is integrated within the NIF project to enhance NLP extraction results in the context of Linked Data. It compares various web-based NER tools and discusses the NERD ontology's role in aligning taxonomies and improving data classification. The presentation emphasizes the importance of creating a unified interface for extracting named entities and the potential benefits of systematic comparisons in extraction tasks.