DBpedia Archive

We will be spending the next three days in Berlin at WikidataCon 2019, the conference for open data enthusiasts. From October 24th till 26th we will be presenting the latest developments and first results of our work in the GlobalFactSyncRE-Project.  Short Project Intro Funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, the … 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

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

After our meetups in Poland and France last year, we delighted the Czech DBpedia community with a DBpedia meetup. It was co-located with the XML Prague conference on February 7th, 2019. First and foremost, we would like to thank Jirka Kosek (University of Economics, Prague), Milan Dojchinovski (AKSW/KILT, Czech … read more

This is our final part of our journey around the world with DBpedia. This time we will take you from Austria, to Mountain View, California and to London, UK. read more

Retrospective Part II. Welcome to the second part of our journey around the world with DBpedia. This time we are taking you to Greece, Germany, to Australia and finally France. Let the travels begin. Welcome to Thessaloniki, Greece & ESWC DBpedians from the Portuguese Chapter presented their research results … read more

With all the beta-testing, the evaluations of the community survey part I and part II and the preparations for the Semantics 2018 we lost almost sight of telling you about the final results of GSoC 2018. Following we present you a short recap of this year’s students and projects … read more

DBpedia Chapters – Challenge Accepted The DBpedia community currently comprises more than 20 language chapters, ranging from  Basque, Japanese to Portuguese and Ukrainian. Managing such a variety of chapters is a huge challenge for the DBpedia Association because individual requirements are as diverse as the different languages the chapters … read more

While everyone at the DBpedia Association was preparing for the SEMANTiCS Conference in Vienna, we also managed to reach an important milestone regarding the beta-test for our data release tool. First and foremost, already 3500 files have been published with the plugin. These files will be part of the … read more

This year’s GSoC is slowly coming to an end with final evaluations already being submitted. In order to bridge the waiting time until final results are published, we like to draw your attention to a former project and great tool that was developed during last years’ GSoC. Meet the DBpedia … read more