DBpedia Blog

We are happy to announce a first release of DBpedia Spotlight – Shedding Light on the Web of Documents.  The amount of data in the Linked Open Data cloud is steadily increasing. Interlinking text documents with this data enables the Web of Data to be used as background knowledge … 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

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

The NLP specialist Ontos extends the quality and amount of information for developers by integrating its news portal into the Linked Data Cloud. Ontos’ GUIDs for objects are now dereferencable – the resulting RDF contains owl:sameAs-attributes to DBpedia, Freebase and others (cf. e.g the entry for Barack Obama). Within … 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

Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.5. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from March 2010. Compared to the 3.4 release, we were able to increase the quality of the DBpedia knowledge base by employing a new data extraction framework which … read more

Hi all,  the DBpedia Team at Freie Universität Berlin is looking for a developer/researcher who wants to contribute to the further development of the DBpedia information extraction framework, investigate approaches to annotate free-text with DBpedia URIs and participate in the various Linked Data efforts currently advanced by our team.  … read more

Hi all, in order to extract high quality data from Wikipedia, the DBpedia extraction framework relies on infobox to ontology mappings which define how Wikipedia infobox templates are mapped to classes of the DBpedia ontology. Up to now, these mappings were defined only by the DBpedia team and as … read more

OKCon, now in its fifth year, is the interdisciplinary conference that brings together individuals from across the open knowledge spectrum (such as also DBpedia in particular and Linked Open Data in general) for a day of presentations and workshops.Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide … read more