This new event is a combination of two already existing ones: the DBpedia Community Meeting, which is regularly held as part of the SEMANTiCS, and the annual Spatial Linked Data conference organised by EuroSDR and the Platform Linked Data Nederland. We fused both together and as a bonus, we added a track about Geo-information Integration hosted by EuroSDR. For the joint opening session, we recruited four amazing keynote speakers to kick the event off.    

Highlights of the Knowledge Graph in Action event

– Hackathon (starts 2 weeks earlier)

– Keynote by Carsten Hoyer-Click, German Aerospace Center

– Keynote by Marinos Kavouras, National Technical University of Athens

– Keynote by Peter Mooney, Maynooth University

– Spatial Linked Data Country Session

– DBpedia Chapter Session

– Self Service GIS Session

– DBpedia Showcase Session

Quick Facts

– Web URL: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction

– When: October 6, 2020

– Where: The conference will take place fully online.

Schedule

– Please check the schedule for the upcoming Knowledge Graphs in Action event here: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction  

Registration 

– Attending the conference is free. Registration is required though. Please get in touch with us if you have any problems during the registration stage. Register here to be part of the meeting: https://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/KnowledgeGraphsInAction 

Organisation

– Benedicte Bucher, University Gustave Eiffel, IGN, EuroSDR

– Erwin Folmer, Kadaster, University of Twente, Platform Linked Data Netherlands

– Rob Lemmens, University of Twente

– Sebastian Hellmann, AKSW/KILT, DBpedia Association

– Julia Holze, DBpedia Association

Don’t think twice and register now! Join the Knowledge Graph in Action event on October 6, 2020 to catch up with the latest research results and developments in the Semantic Web Community. Register here and meet us and other SEMANTiCS enthusiasts.

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We are looking forward to meeting you online!

Julia

on behalf of the DBpedia Association

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Survey Evaluation – Episode Two

The second survey focused on technical matters. We asked the chapters about the usage of DBpedia services and tools, technical problems and challenges and potential reasons to overcome them.  Have a look below.

Again, only nine out of 21 DBpedia chapters participated in this survey. And again, that means, the results only represent roughly 42% of the DBpedia chapter population

The good news is, all chapters maintain a local DBpedia endpoint. Yay! More than 55 % of the chapters perform their own extraction. The rest of them apply a hybrid approach reusing some datasets from DBpedia releases and additionally, extract some on their own.

Datasets, Services and Applications

In terms of frequency of dataset updates, the situation is as follows:  44,4 % of the chapters update them once a year. The answers of the remaining ones differ in equal shares, depending on various factors. See the graph below. 

When it comes to the maintenance of links to local datasets, most of the chapters do not have additional ones. However, some do maintain links to, for example, Greek WordNet, the National Library of Greece Authority record, Geonames.jp and the Japanese WordNet. Furthermore, some of the chapters even host other datasets of local interest, but mostly in a separate endpoint, so they keep separate graphs.

Apart from hosting their own endpoint, most chapters maintain one or the other additional service such as Spotlight, LodLive or LodView.

Moreover,  the chapters have additional applications they developed on top of DBpedia data and services.

Besides, they also gave us some reasons why they were not able to deploy DBpedia related services. See their replies below.

DBpedia Chapter set-up

Lastly, we asked the technical heads of the chapters what the hardest task for setting up their chapter had been.  The answers, again, vary as the starting position of each chapter differed. Read a few of their replies below.

The hardest technical task for setting up the chapter was:

• to keep virtuoso up to date
• the chapter specific setup of DBpedia plugin in Virtuoso
• the Extraction Framework
• configuring Virtuoso for serving data using server’s FQDN and Nginx proxying
• setting up the Extraction Framework, especially for abstracts
• correctly setting up the extraction process and the DBpedia facet browser
• fixing internationalization issues, and updating the endpoint
• keeping the extraction framework working and up to date
• updating the server to the specific requirements for further compilation – we work on Debian

Final  words

With all the data and results we gathered, we will get together with our chapter coordinator to develop a strategy of how to improve technical as well as organizational issues the surveys revealed. By that, we hope to facilitate a better exchange between the chapters and with us, the DBpedia Association. Moreover, we intend to minimize barriers for setting up and maintaining a DBpedia chapter so that our chapter community may thrive and prosper.

In the meantime, spread your work and share it with the community. Do not forget to follow and tag us on Twitter ( @dbpedia ). You may also want to subscribe to our newsletter.

We will keep you posted about any updates and news.

Yours

DBpedia Association

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