DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
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 [...]
Want to bring your Blog, Wiki, WebApp to the Semantic Web?
DBpedia exposes semantics extracted from one of the largest information sources on the Web. But one of the nice things about the Web is the variety and wealth of content (including your Blog, Wiki, CMS or other WebApp). In order to make this large variety of small Websites better mashable and bring them on the [...]
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 2.18 million articles. Wikipedia has the problem that its search capabilities are limited to full-text search, which only allows very limited access to this valuable knowledge-base.
Semantic Web technologies enable expressive queries against structured information on the Web and to interlink data between different Web data sources. The Semantic Web has the problem that there is not much RDF data online yet and that up-to-date terms and ontologies are missing for many application domains.
The DBpedia project approaches both problems by extracting structured information from Wikipedia and by making this information available on the Semantic Web.
The DBpedia dataset currently provides information about more than 2.18 million “things”, including at least 80,000 persons, 293,000 places, 62,000 music albums, 36,000 films. Altogether, the DBpedia dataset 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 dataset.
- Online Access describes how the dataset can be accessed via a SPARQL endpoint and as Linked Data.
- Downloads provides the DBpedia datasets for download.
- Interlinking describes how the DBpedia dataset is interlinked with various other datasets on the Web.
- Use Cases lists different use cases for the DBpedia dataset.
- 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: 
2008-06-09 19:23:25 by Ted Thibodeau Jr