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Are you a student looking for a summer experience that combines coding skills with open source development? Then look no further than the Google Summer of Code program 2024, where you can join forces with DBpedia to help advance the state of the art in semantic web technologies. Build … read more

This is the final part of our journey through 2023. In the previous blog post we have presented the DBpedia highlights. Now we will take a look at the second half of 2023 and give an outlook for 2024. Tutorial @  Language, Data and Knowledge conference On 13th of … read more

Can you believe it..? … sixteen years ago the first DBpedia dataset was released. Sixteen years of development, improvements and growth. Now more than 4,100 GByte of data is hosted on the DBpedia Databus. We want to take this as an opportunity to send out a big “Thank you!” … read more

We received 27 project proposals for this GSoC edition. For the 12th year in a row, we have been able to support and guide young, ambitious developers who joined us as an open source organization to work on a programming project over this summer. This year we were once … read more

Up to 120 DBpedians joined the DBpedia Day on September 20, 2023, in Leipzig, Germany. This year’s meeting was again co-located with the SEMANTiCS conference.  read more

Already, half of the year 2023 has passed by. Time for us to look back on the past half year. What have we achieved? What still lies ahead of us? In the following, we will take you on a retrospective tour through the first half of 2023. We will … read more

Great job! You have been chosen as one of our GSoC students for the summer of 2023, where you will be working together with DBpedia. We would like to introduce you to the DBpedia community, developers, and your mentors so that you can establish contact with them. Keep reading … read more

We are pleased to announce immediate availability of a new edition of the free and publicly accessible SPARQL Query Service Endpoint and Linked Data Pages, for interacting with the new Snapshot Dataset.  News since DBpedia Snapshot 2022-09 Work in progress: Smoothing the community issue reporting and fixing at Github … read more

Are you a student looking for a summer experience that combines coding skills with open source development? Then look no further than the Google Summer of Code program 2023, where you can join forces with DBpedia to help advance the state of the art in semantic web technologies. Build … read more

By Ed de Heer About the National Archives This article describes the Linked Open Data (LOD) activities of the National Archives of the Netherlands and is based on my presentation at Semantics 2022 in Vienna. At the National Archives people find information about their lives, Dutch (political/administrative) history and … read more