DBpedia Archive

Rencontre avec les français DBpédiens à Lyon In cooperation with Thomas Riechert (HTWK/InfAI), the DBpedia Association organized our second DBpedia meetup this year, this time in Lyon. On July 3rd, 2018, we met the French DBpedia Community at the ENS in person and presented the vision of the new … read more

Unfortunately, with the new GDPR, we experienced some trouble with our Blog. That is why this post is published a little later than anticipated. There you go. With our new strategic orientation and the emergence of the DBpedia Databus, we wanted to meet some DBpedia enthusiasts of the German … 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

A belated Happy New Year to all DBpedia enthusiasts !!! Two weeks of 2016 have already passed and it is about time to reflect on the past three months which were revolving around the 5th DBpedia meeting in the USA. After 4 successful meetings in Poznan, Dublin, Leipzig and … read more

DBpedia Spotlight is an entity linking tool for connecting free text to DBpedia through the recognition and disambiguation of entities and concepts from the DBpedia KB. We are happy to announce Version 0.7 of DBpedia Spotlight, which is also the first official release of the probabilistic/statistical implementation. More information … read more

We started to draft a document for submission at Google Summer of Code 2014:http://dbpedia.org/gsoc2014We are still in need of ideas and mentors.  If you have any improvements on DBpedia or DBpedia Spotlight that you would like to have done, please submit it in the ideas section now. Note that … 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

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