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SEMANTiCS is THE leading European conference in the field of semantic technologies and the platform for professionals who make semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know its limitations. Following, we will give you a brief retrospective about the presentations. Opening Session Katja Hose – “Querying the web … read more

Today’s post features an interview with our DBpedia Day keynote speaker Katja Hose, a Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. In this Interview, Katja talks about increasing the reliability of Knowledge Graph Access as well as her expectations for SEMANTiCS 2019.  Prior to joining Aalborg University, Katja was a … read more

As the upcoming 14th DBpedia Community Meeting, co-located with SEMANTiCS 2019 in Karlsruhe, Sep 9-12, is drawing nearer, we like to take that opportunity to introduce you to our DBpedia keynote speakers. Today’s post features an interview with Dan Weitzner from WPSemantix who talks about timbr-DBpedia, which we blogged … read more

RDF2NL is featured in the following guest post by Diego Moussalem, (Dice Research Group & Portuguese DBpedia Chapter). Hi DBpedians, During the DBpedia Day in Leipzig, I gave a talk about how to use the facts contained in the DBpedia Knowledge Graph for generating coherent sentences and texts. We … read more

Part VI of the DBpedia Growth Hack series (View all) DBpedia Live is a long term core project of DBpedia that immediately extracts fresh triples from all changed Wikipedia articles. After a long hiatus, fresh and live updated data is available once again, thanks to our former co-worker Lena … read more

How is data edited in Wikipedia/Wikidata? Where does it come from? And how can we synchronize it globally?   The GlobalFactSync (GFS) Project — funded by the Wikimedia Foundation — started in June 2019 and has two goals: Answer the above-mentioned three questions. Build an information system to synchronize facts … read more

With timbr, WPSemantix and the DBpedia Association launch the first SQL Semantic Knowledge Graph that integrates Wikipedia and Wikidata Knowledge into SQL engines. In part three of DBpedia’s growth hack blog series, we feature timbr, the latest development at DBpedia in collaboration with WPSemantix. Read on to find out … read more

DBpedia has a new platform for exchange and support around DBpedia - the DBpedia Forum. read more

*UPDATE* – We are now 5 weeks in our growth hack. Read on below to find out how it all started. Click here to follow up on each of our milestones. A growth hack – how come? Things have gone a bit quiet around DBpedia. No new releases, no … read more

After a very successful LDK conference May 20th-21st, representatives of the European DBpedia community met at Villa Ida Mediencampus,  on Thursday, May 23rd, to present their work with DBpedia and to exchange about the DBpedia Databus.   read more