DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to make sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
DBpedia 3.1 breaks 100 million triples barrier
Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version.
Apart from the more recent Wikipedia dumps we used, some notable improvements are a much better YAGO mapping, [...]
DBpedia Mobile released.
Freie Universität Berlin has released DBpedia Mobile. Based on the current GPS position of a mobile device, DBpedia Mobile renders a map containing information about nearby locations from the DBpedia dataset (currently around 300,000 locations). DBpedia Mobile uses the Marbles Linked Data Browser to render Fresnel-based views for selected resources, as well as its SPARQL capabilities to build the map view. Starting from the map, users can explore background information about locations [...]
LOD Triplification Challenge
Together with this years I-Semantics conference we are organizing a Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge.
The challenge aims at expediting the process of revealing and exposing structured representations, as does the DBpedia project for Wikipedia. Structured (relational) representations already back most of the existing Web sites. In addition to revealing these the challenge also aims at [...]
Project Overview
Wikipedia is the by far largest publicly available encyclopedia on the Web. Wikipedia editions are available in over 250 languages with the English one accounting for more than 2.49 million articles. Unfortunately, Wikipedia's search capabilities are limited to full-text search, which allows very limited access to this valuable knowledge-base.
Semantic Web technologies enable expressive queries against structured and interlinked information on the Web. Unfortunately, there is not much RDF data online yet, and up-to-date terms and ontologies are missing for many application domains.
The DBpedia project helps resolve both issues by extracting structured information from Wikipedia and by making this information available on the Web.
The DBpedia data set currently provides information about more than 2.49 million “things”, including at least 108,000 persons, 392,000 places, 57,000 music albums, and 36,000 films. Altogether, the DBpedia data set consists of 218 million pieces of information (RDF triples).
Wiki Contents
This Wiki provides information about the DBpedia community project:
- Datasets gives an overview about the DBpedia data set.
- Architecture paints a picture of the software and protocols used in the DBpedia implementation.
- Online Access describes how the data set can be accessed via a SPARQL endpoint and as Linked Data.
- Downloads provides the DBpedia data sets for download.
- Interlinking describes how the DBpedia data set is interlinked with various other datasets on the Web.
- Use Cases lists different use cases for the DBpedia data set.
- Extraction Framework describes the DBpedia information extraction framework.
- Publications gives an overview about DBpedia related publications.
- Community explains how the DBpedia community collaborates and how people can contribute to the DBpedia effort.
- Credits lists the people and institutions that have contributed to DBpedia so far.
- Next steps describes ideas and future plans for the DBpedia project.
Information
Last Modification: 
2008-08-18 20:30:44 by Ted Thibodeau Jr