DBpedia Archive

After the success of the last two community meetings in Palo Alto and in The Hague we thought it is time to meet in Leipzig, where the DBpedia Association is located. During the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, Sep 12-15, the DBpedia community met on the 15th of September. First … read more

During the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, Sep 12-15, the DBpedia community will get together on the 15th of September for the 7th edition of the DBpedia Community Meeting. The meeting will take place at the University of Leipzig (Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany). See here for detailed directions. Over … read more

In the latest release (2015-10) DBpedia started exploring the citation and reference data from Wikipedia and we were pleasantly surprised by the rich data we managed to extract. citation_data_en.ttl.bz2 (sample) citation_links_en.ttl.bz2 (sample) This data holds huge potential, especially for the Wikidata challenge of providing a reference source for every … read more

DBpedia will be part of the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems (6-8 July 2016) at the University of Leipzig. The conference addresses a wide scientific community and experts involved in the development of business computing applications.The three-day conference program is a mix of workshops, tutorials and paper … read more

DBpedia participated for a fourth time in the Google summer of code program. This was a quite competitive year (like every year) where more than fourty students applied for a DBpedia project. In the end,  8 great students from all around the world  were selected and will work on … read more

3 more days to go… until we finally meet again for our next DBpedia Community Meeting, which is hosted by the National Library of the Netherlands in the Hague on February 12th. One day before we will have a welcome reception (5-8pm) with snacks and drinks at TNO – … read more

The submission deadline for mentoring organizations to submit their application for the 2016 Google Summer of Code is approaching quickly. As DBpedia is again planning to be a vital part of the Mentoring Summit, we like to take that opportunity to  give you a little recap of the projects … read more

We are pleased to announce that a new overview article for DBpedia is available. The article covers several aspects of the DBpedia community project: The DBpedia extraction framework. The mappings wiki as the central structure for maintaining the community-curated DBpedia ontology. Statistics on the multilingual support in DBpedia. DBpedia … read more