DBpedia Blog

We are pleased to announce the release of DBpedia 3.3. This release is based on Wikipedia dumps of May 2009. The new release includes the following improvements over DBpedia 3.2: 1. more accurate abstract extraction 2. labels and abstracts in 80 languages 3. several infobox extraction bugfixes 4. new … read more

The 3Sat computer magazine ‘neues‘ has broadcasted a feature about Linked Data and DBpedia and the roles both efforts are playing in the evolution of the Web into a medium for the publication and linkage of data. See: Komplett verlinkt (Description of the broadcast, German) Broadcast, 3Sat, 21.6.2009 (German) … read more

Chris Bizer and Christian Becker will be at the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up  in Berlin this week-end. So if you are also there and you are interested in DBpedia, just grap us. If we manage to get hold of the beamer and people are interested, we might also present the … read more

Kingsley announced on Tuesday that the first of data sets from the LOD community including DBpedia have been uploaded to the Amazon’s public data set hosting facility. Thus you can now do the following: Download DBpedia data from Amazon’s hosting facility at no cost to your own data center … read more

we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia version 3.2. The new knowledge base has been extracted from the October 2008 Wikipedia dumps. Compared to the last release, the new knowledge base provides three mayor improvements: 1. DBpedia Ontology DBpedia now features a shallow, cross-domain ontology, which has … read more

Freebase is an open-license database which provides data about million of things from various domains. Freebase has recently released an Linked Data interface to their content (See release note). As there is a big overlap between DBpedia and Freebase, we have added 2.4 million RDF links to DBpedia pointing at the corresponding things in Freebase. These … read more

We are happy to announce that DBpedia Mobile has won the 2nd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference. DBpedia Mobile is a location-aware client for the Semantic Web that can be used on an iPhone and other mobile devices. Based on the current … read more

Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version. Apart from the more recent Wikipedia dumps we used, some notable … read more

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, … read more

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 … read more