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The DBpedia Databus  - our digital factory Platform -  is one of many drivers that will help to build the much-needed data infrastructure for ML and AI to prosper. read more

With the advent of digital technologies, an ever-increasing amount of language data is now available across various application areas and industry sectors, thus making language data more and more valuable. In that context, we would like to draw your attention to the 2nd Language, Data and Knowledge conference, short LDK … read more

Pinky: Gee, Brain, what are we gonna do this year? Brain: The same thing we do every year, Pinky. Taking over GSoC. Exactly what DBpedia plans to do this summer. We have been accepted as one of 206 open source organizations to participate in Google Summer of Code  (GSoC) again. Yes, … read more

After our meetups in Poland and France last year, we delighted the Czech DBpedia community with a DBpedia meetup. It was co-located with the XML Prague conference on February 7th, 2019. First and foremost, we would like to thank Jirka Kosek (University of Economics, Prague), Milan Dojchinovski (AKSW/KILT, Czech … read more

We are happy to announce that the upcoming DBpedia meetup will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. During the XML conference Prague , Feb 7-9,  the DBpedia Community will get together on February 7, 2019. Highlights – Intro: DBpedia: Global and Unified Access to Knowledge (Graphs) – DBpedia Databus … read more

This is our final part of our journey around the world with DBpedia. This time we will take you from Austria, to Mountain View, California and to London, UK. read more

Retrospective Part II. Welcome to the second part of our journey around the world with DBpedia. This time we are taking you to Greece, Germany, to Australia and finally France. Let the travels begin. Welcome to Thessaloniki, Greece & ESWC DBpedians from the Portuguese Chapter presented their research results … read more

In the upcoming Blog-Series, we like to take you on a retrospective tour around the world, giving you insights into a year with DBpedia. We will start out with Stop-overs in Japan, Poland and Germany and will continue our journey to other continents in the following two weeks. read more

Meet Chaudron Before getting into the technical details of, did you know the term Chaudron derives from Old French and denotes a large metal cooking pot? The word was used as an alternative form of chawdron which means entrails.  Entrails and cauldron –  a combo that seems quite fitting with Halloween coming … read more

Guest article by Victor de Boer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL, member of NL-DBpedia Who uses DBpedia anyway?… This question started a research project for Frank Walraven, an Information Sciences Master student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA). The question came up during one of the meetings of the Dutch DBpedia … read more