DBpedia Blog

The submission deadline for mentoring organizations to submit their application for the 2016 Google Summer of Code is approaching quickly. As DBpedia is again planning to be a vital part of the Mentoring Summit, we like to take that opportunity to  give you a little recap of the projects … read more

A belated Happy New Year to all DBpedia enthusiasts !!! Two weeks of 2016 have already passed and it is about time to reflect on the past three months which were revolving around the 5th DBpedia meeting in the USA. After 4 successful meetings in Poznan, Dublin, Leipzig and … read more

Dear all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 2015-04 (also known as: 2015 A). The new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from February/March 2015 and features an enlarged DBpedia ontology with more infobox to ontology mappings, leading to richer and cleaner data. http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads2015-04 … read more

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 2014. The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.9 are: 1. the new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from April / May 2014 (the 3.9 release was based on dumps from … read more

DBpedia Spotlight is an entity linking tool for connecting free text to DBpedia through the recognition and disambiguation of entities and concepts from the DBpedia KB. We are happy to announce Version 0.7 of DBpedia Spotlight, which is also the first official release of the probabilistic/statistical implementation. More information … read more

We started to draft a document for submission at Google Summer of Code 2014:http://dbpedia.org/gsoc2014We are still in need of ideas and mentors.  If you have any improvements on DBpedia or DBpedia Spotlight that you would like to have done, please submit it in the ideas section now. Note that … read more

(Part of our DBpedia+spotlight @ GSoC mini blog series) Mentor: Marco Fossati @hjfocs <fossati[at]spaziodati.eu> Student: Kasun Perera <kkasunperera[at]gmail.com> The latest version of the DBpedia ontology has 529 classes. It is not well balanced and shows a lack of coverage in terms of encyclopedic knowledge representation. Furthermore, the current typing … read more

As some of the potential users of DBpedia might not be familiar with the RDF data model and the SPARQL query language, we provide some of the core DBpedia 3.9 data also in tabular form as Comma-Seperated-Values (CSV) files which can easily be processed using standard tools such as spreadsheet applications, relational databases or data mining tools. For each class in the DBpedia ontology (such as Person, Radio Station, … read more

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.9. The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.8 are: 1. the new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from March / April 2013 (the 3.8 release was based on dumps from June … read more

We are pleased to announce that a new overview article for DBpedia is available. The article covers several aspects of the DBpedia community project: The DBpedia extraction framework. The mappings wiki as the central structure for maintaining the community-curated DBpedia ontology. Statistics on the multilingual support in DBpedia. DBpedia … read more