DBpedia Archive

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 2014. The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.9 are: 1. the new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from April / May 2014 (the 3.9 release was based on dumps from … read more

(Part of our DBpedia+spotlight @ GSoC mini blog series) Mentor: Marco Fossati @hjfocs <fossati[at]spaziodati.eu> Student: Kasun Perera <kkasunperera[at]gmail.com> The latest version of the DBpedia ontology has 529 classes. It is not well balanced and shows a lack of coverage in terms of encyclopedic knowledge representation. Furthermore, the current typing … read more

As some of the potential users of DBpedia might not be familiar with the RDF data model and the SPARQL query language, we provide some of the core DBpedia 3.9 data also in tabular form as Comma-Seperated-Values (CSV) files which can easily be processed using standard tools such as spreadsheet applications, relational databases or data mining tools. For each class in the DBpedia ontology (such as Person, Radio Station, … read more

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.9. The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.8 are: 1. the new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from March / April 2013 (the 3.8 release was based on dumps from June … read more

Hi all,we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.8. The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.7 are: 1. the new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from late May / early June 2012. 2. the DBpedia ontology is enlarged and … read more

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.7. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from late July 2011. The new DBpedia data set describes more than 3.64 million things, of which 1.83 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 416,000 persons, … read more

We are pleased to announce the official release of DBpedia Live. The main objective of DBpedia is to extract structured information from Wikipedia, convert it into RDF, and make it freely available on the Web. In a nutshell, DBpedia is the Semantic Web mirror of Wikipedia. Wikipedia users constantly … read more

Hi all,  we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.6. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from October/November 2010.   The new DBpedia dataset describes more than 3.5 million things, of which 1.67 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 364,000 persons, 462,000 places, … read more

As the Amazon Web Services are getting used a lot for cloud computing, we have started to provide current snapshots of the DBpedia dataset for this environment. We provide the DBpedia dataset for Amazon Web Services in two ways: 1. Source files for being mounted:  http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2319 2. Virtuoso SPARQL store for being instanciated: http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtAWSDBpedia351C  read more

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.5.1. This is primarily a bugfix release, which is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from March 2010. Thanks to the great community feedback about the previous DBpedia release, we were able to resolve the reported issues as well … read more