DBpedia Archive

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

In the upcoming Blog-Series, we like to take you on a retrospective tour around the world, giving you insights into a year with DBpedia. We will start out with Stop-overs in Japan, Poland and Germany and will continue our journey to other continents in the following two weeks. read more

As you already know, with the new DBpedia strategy our mode of publishing releases changed.  The new DBpedia release process follows a three-step approach starting from the Extraction to ID-Management towards the Fusion, which finalizes the release process.  Our DBpedia releases are currently published on a monthly basis. In this post, … 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

Just recently, DBpedia Association member and hosting specialist, OpenLink released the DBpedia Usage report, a periodic report on the DBpedia SPARQL endpoint and associated Linked Data deployment. The report not only gives some historical insight into DBpedia’s usage, number of visits and hits per day but especially shows statistics … 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

New Internship Opportunity @ In conjunction with Springer Nature,  DBpedia offers a 3 months internship at Springer Nature in London, UK and at DBpedia in Leipzig, Germany. Internship Details Position DBpedia Intern Main Employer DBpedia Association Deadline June 30th, 2017 Duration 3 months/full-time, internship will starts in the second half of … read more

We are very excited to announce this year's final students for our projects at the Google Summer of Code program (GSoC). In this years GSoC edition, DBpedia received more than 30 submissions for selected DBpedia projects. Our mentors read many promising proposals, evaluated them and now the crême de la … read more

European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year – about everything from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe. The Opendata competition aims to challenge designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, … read more

In line with prior releases of DBpedia, there is a new 3.6 edition of the DBpedia AMI available from Amazon EC2. What is a DBpedia AMI? A preconfigured Virtuoso Cluster Edition database that includes a preloaded DBpedia dataset. The entire deliverable is packaged as an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI); … read more