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DBpedia now part of Amazon Public Data Sets
February 27, 2009Kingsley 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 -
DBpedia version 3.2 released including the new DBpedia Ontology
November 17, 2008we 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 -
DBpedia is now interlinked with Freebase. Links to OpenCyc updated.
November 15, 2008Freebase 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 -
DBpedia Mobile won the 2nd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge 2008
November 2, 2008We 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 -
DBpedia 3.1 breaks 100 million triples barrier
August 18, 2008Today, 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 -
DBpedia Mobile released.
May 11, 2008Freie 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 -
LOD Triplification Challenge
April 19, 2008Together 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 -
Want to bring your Blog, Wiki, WebApp to the Semantic Web?
March 20, 2008DBpedia exposes semantics extracted from one of the largest information sources on the Web. But one of the nice things about the Web is the variety and wealth of content (including your Blog, Wiki, CMS or other WebApp). In order to make this large variety of small Websites better … read more -
4th ESWC Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
February 15, 2008As already during the last 4 years we again organize this year a workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, co-located on June 1st with European Semantic Web Conference in Tenerife, Spain. Scripting languages as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby etc. will play a crucial role for getting the Semantic Web … read more -
DBpedia 3.0 Release
February 10, 2008We announce the availability of the DBpedia 3.0 final release. Downloads are available at http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads. For a list of changes since DBpedia 2.0, see the Changelog. Most notably, multi-language support was improved, new linked data sets added, and extraction code improved. Compared to the 3.0 release candidate, a number … read more