DBpedia Blog

This is the final part of our journey through 2022. In the previous blog post we already presented DBpedia highlights, events and tutorials. Now we want to take a look at the second half of 2022 and give an outlook for 2023. DBpedia Day @ Semantics Conference in Vienna … read more

A year with DBpedia – Retrospective Part 1 Can you believe it..? … fifteen years ago the first DBpedia dataset was released. Fourteen years of development, improvements and growth. Now more than 4,150 GByte of data is hosted on the DBpedia Databus. We want to take this as an … read more

We are pleased to announce immediate availability of a new edition of the free and publicly accessible SPARQL Query Service Endpoint and Linked Data Pages, for interacting with the new Snapshot Dataset. News since DBpedia Snapshot 2022-03 New Abstract Extractor due to GSOC 2022 (credits to Celian Ringwald) Work … read more

We received 11 project proposals for this GSoC edition. For the 11th year in a row, we have been able to support and guide young, ambitious developers who joined us as an open source organization to work on a programming project over this summer. Each year we have been inspired … read more

Spoiler alert: yes it can! TLDR Providing access to information is the main and most important purpose of the Web. Despite available easy-to-use tools (e.g., search engines, question answering) the accessibility is typically limited by the capability of using the English language.  In this work, we evaluate Knowledge Graph … read more

Wow! Up to 100 DBpedians joined the DBpedia Day on September 13, 2022, in Vienna. This year the event was again co-located with the SEMANTiCS conference.  First and foremost, we would like to thank the Institute for Applied Informatics for supporting our community and many thanks to the SEMANTiCS … read more

The DBpedia team, heartbrokenly, has to inform you: that there will be NO new Snapshot Release of version 2022-06. You can still use the last Snapshot Release of version 2022-03. We want to address the current problem and future solutions in the following. We encountered several new issues, but the major … read more

Exactly 3 weeks ago, the first Data Week Leipzig started on July 4th, 2022. Data Week was a week-long event in Leipzig focusing on digitization in heterogeneous areas of life as well as transparent, traceable and sustainable applications. Among many other presentations and formats in the area of digitalization … read more

Already, half of the year 2022 has passed by. Time for us to look back on the past half year. What have we achieved? What still lies ahead of us? In the following, we will take you on a retrospective tour through the first half of 2022. We will … read more

Congratulations! You made it! You are selected as one of our GSoC students, who will work with DBpedia during the summer of 2022. In the following we will introduce how you can get in contact with the DBpedia community, the developers and your great mentors. Keep reading! Student Projects … read more