DBpedia Archive

Pinky: Gee, Brain, what are we gonna do this year?Brain: Wear a mask, keep our distance, and do the same thing we do every year, Pinky. Taking over GSoC2021. For the 10th year in a row, we have been accepted to be part of this incredible program to support … read more

This is the final part of our journey through 2020. In the previous blog post we already presented DBpedia highlights, events and tutorials. Now we want to take a deeper look at the second half of 2020 and give an outlook for 2021. DBpedia Autumn Hackathon and the KGiA … read more

Can you believe it..? … thirteen years ago the first DBpedia dataset was released. Thirteen years of development, improvements and growth. Now more than 2,600 GByte of Data is uploaded on the DBpedia Databus. We want to take this as an opportunity to send out a big Thank you! … read more

More than 90 DBpedia enthusiasts joined the DBpedia Workshop colocated with LDAC2020. On June 19, 2020 we organized a DBpedia workshop co-located with the LDAC workshop series to exchange knowledge regarding new technologies and innovations in the fields of Linked Data and Semantic Web. This workshop series provides a … read more

James: Sherry with the soup, yes… Oh, by the way, the same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie? Miss Sophie: Same procedure as every year, James. …and we are proud of it. We are very grateful to be accepted as an open-source organization in this years’  Google Summer of … read more

We are thrilled to announce that our Databus Collection Feature for the DBpedia Databus has been developed and is now available as a prototype. It simplifies the way to bundle your data and use it in your application. A new Databus Collection Feature? How come, and how does it … read more

… by and for Consumers until 2025 One Billion – what a mission! We are proud to announce that the DBpedia Databus website at https://databus.dbpedia.org and the SPARQL API at https://databus.dbpedia.org/(repo/sparql|yasgui) (docu) are in public beta now! The system is usable (eat-your-own-dog-food tested) following a “working software over comprehensive … read more

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

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