DBpedia Blog

As you already know, with the new DBpedia strategy our mode of publishing releases changed.  The new DBpedia release process follows a three-step approach starting from the Extraction to ID-Management towards the Fusion, which finalizes the release process.  Our DBpedia releases are currently published on a monthly basis. In this post, … read more

With all the beta-testing, the evaluations of the community survey part I and part II and the preparations for the Semantics 2018 we lost almost sight of telling you about the final results of GSoC 2018. Following we present you a short recap of this year’s students and projects … read more

Welcome back to part two of the evaluation of the surveys, we conducted with the DBpedia chapters. Survey Evaluation – Episode Two The second survey focused on technical matters. We asked the chapters about the usage of DBpedia services and tools, technical problems and challenges and potential reasons to overcome them.  … read more

DBpedia Chapters – Challenge Accepted The DBpedia community currently comprises more than 20 language chapters, ranging from  Basque, Japanese to Portuguese and Ukrainian. Managing such a variety of chapters is a huge challenge for the DBpedia Association because individual requirements are as diverse as the different languages the chapters … read more

More than 110 DBpedia enthusiasts joined the Community Meeting in Vienna. After the success of the last two community meetings in Amsterdam and Leipzig, we thought it is time to meet you at the SEMANTiCS conference again. This year’s SEMANTiCS opened with the DBpedia Day on September 10th, 2018 … read more

While everyone at the DBpedia Association was preparing for the SEMANTiCS Conference in Vienna, we also managed to reach an important milestone regarding the beta-test for our data release tool. First and foremost, already 3500 files have been published with the plugin. These files will be part of the … read more

This year’s GSoC is slowly coming to an end with final evaluations already being submitted. In order to bridge the waiting time until final results are published, we like to draw your attention to a former project and great tool that was developed during last years’ GSoC. Meet the DBpedia … read more

Today we are featuring DBpedia Entity, in our blog series of introducting interesting DBpedia applications and tools to the DBpedia community and beyond. Read on and enjoy. DBpedia-Entity is a standard test collection for entity search over the DBpedia knowledge base. It is meant for evaluating retrieval systems that return … read more

Finally, we are proud to announce that the beta-testing of our data release tool for data releases on the DBpedia Databus is about to start. In the past weeks, our developers at DBpedia  have been developing a new data release tool to release datasets on the DBpedia Databus. In … read more

We are happy to announce that the 12th DBpedia Community Meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of SEMANTiCS 2018, Sep 10-13, the DBpedia Community will get together on the 10th of September for the DBpedia Day. Highlights – Keynote presentation by Javier David Fernández García … read more