DBpedia Archive

Pinky: Gee, Brain, what are we gonna do this year? Brain: The same thing we do every year, Pinky. Taking over GSoC. Exactly what DBpedia plans to do this summer. We have been accepted as one of 206 open source organizations to participate in Google Summer of Code  (GSoC) again. Yes, … 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

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

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

Supporting young and aspiring developers has always been part of DBpedia‘s philosophy. Through various internships and collaborations with programmes such as Google Summer of Code, we were able to not only meet aspiring developers but also establish long-lasting relationships with these DBpedians ensuring a sustainable progress for and with DBpedia.  For 6 … read more

Can you believe ..? … that it has already been eleven years since the first DBpedia dataset was released? Eleven years of development,  improvements and growth, and now, 13 billion pieces of information are comprised in our last DBpedia release. We want to take this opportunity to send out … read more

One lightning event after the other. Just four weeks after our Amsterdam Community Meeting, we crossed the Atlantic for the third time to meet with over 110 US-based DBpedia enthusiasts. This time, the DBpedia Community met in Cupertino, California and was hosted at Apple Inc.  Main Event First and … read more

We are very pleased to announce that all of this year’s Google Summer of Code students made it successful through the program and passed their projects. All codes have been submitted, merged and are ready to be examined by the rest of the world. Marco Fossati, Dimitris Kontokostas, Tommaso Soru, Domenico Potena, … read more

Google summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. During the 3 months summer break from university, students work on a programming projects  with an open source organization, like DBpedia.  We are part of this exciting program for more than 5 … read more