DBpedia Blog

Dear DBpedians, As previous years, we would like your input for DBpedia related project ideas for GSoC 2017. For those who are unfamiliar with GSoC (Google Summer of Code), Google pays students (BSc, MSc, PhD) to work for 3 months on an open source project. Open source organizations announce … read more

The DBpedia community and members from over 20 countries work hard to localize and internationalize DBpedia and support the extraction of non-English Wikipedia editions as well as build a data community around a certain language, region or special interest. The chapters are part of the DBpedia executives and have … read more

After our successful meeting in Poznan in 2015, we thought it is time to meet the Polish DBpedia community again. The DBpedia meetup will be held on 22th of November 2016 at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. This meetup aims at the presentation of semantic web technologies … read more

After the largest DBpedia meeting to date we decided it was time to cross the Atlantic for the second time for another meetup. Two weeks ago the 8th DBpedia Community Meeting was held in Sunnyvale, California on October 27th 2016. Main Event Pablo Mendes from Lattice Data Inc. opened … read more

Less than 24 hours left to reserve your seat for our 2nd US DBpedia Community meeting. The meeting will be held in Sunnyvale on October 27th 2016, hosted by Yahoo. Over 85 participants registered so far, we will offer 20 more tickets. So come and get your ticket to … read more

Hereby we announce the release of DBpedia 2016-04. The new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from March/April 2016 featuring a significantly expanded base of information as well as richer and (hopefully) cleaner data based on the DBpedia ontology. You can download the new DBpedia datasets in … read more

Very shortly after the largest DBpedia meeting to date we are crossing Atlantic for the second time. We are happy to announce that the 8th DBpedia Community Meeting will be held in Sunnyvale on October 27th 2016, hosted by Yahoo. The event will feature talks from Yahoo, IBM Watson, … read more

After the success of the last two community meetings in Palo Alto and in The Hague we thought it is time to meet in Leipzig, where the DBpedia Association is located. During the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, Sep 12-15, the DBpedia community met on the 15th of September. First … read more

During the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, Sep 12-15, the DBpedia community will get together on the 15th of September for the 7th edition of the DBpedia Community Meeting. The meeting will take place at the University of Leipzig (Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany). See here for detailed directions. Over … read more

Following our successful meetings in Europe & US our next DBpedia meeting will be held at Leipzig on September 15th, co-located with SEMANTiCS. * Highlights * – Keynote by Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata – A session for the “DBpedia references and citations challenge” – A session on DBpedia ontology by … read more