Basic Plans

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The DBpedia Project in 2014: from a hosted data set to a public data infrastructure for the Web of Data. As the DBpedia community has grown extensively, we think that the time has come to get everybody in one large room and meet. We hope to get together three major groups involved in DBpedia: the DBpedia developers and maintainers, the communities of the individual DBpedia language chapters, and, of course, the DBpedia users. The meeting will be held at VU Amsterdam on Jan 30th and is co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting one day earlier. The first session will be a discussion about the DBpedia State-of-Play, where core members of the DBpedia community present certain aspects of DBpedia and the audience is invited to give feedback and ask questions. The second session will be dedicated to users of DBpedia. We would like to invite companies, organisations, and other project to briefly present their use cases for DBpedia and give input on how we can improve DBpedia for users. Free slots still available, apply here.

After the lunch, we plan to have three break-out sessions for the topics (1) DBpedia and Library, (2) Linking text to LOD entities, and (3) What is wrong with DBpedia? Developers discussion on how to improve our baby. Finally, the last parallel sessions are planned as: DBpedia tutorial, DBpedia I18N developers’ session, and a Local Dutch DBpedia Chapter Meeting, with the additional possibility to continue break out sessions.

About DBpedia

(Source: Semantic Web Journal article)
The DBpedia community project extracts structured, multilingual knowledge from Wikipedia and makes it freely available using Semantic Web and Linked Data standards. The extracted knowledge, comprising more than 1.8 billion facts, is structured according to an ontology maintained by the community. The knowledge is obtained from different Wikipedia language editions, thus covering more than 100 languages, and mapped to the community ontology. The resulting data sets are linked to more than 30 other data sets in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. The DBpedia project was started in 2006 and has since attracted large interest in research and practice. A central part of the LOD cloud, it serves as a connection hub for other data sets. For the research community, DBpedia provides a testbed serving real world data spanning many domains and languages. Due to the continuous growth of Wikipedia, DBpedia also provides an increasing added value for data acquisition, re-use, and integration tasks within organisations. In this system report, we give an overview over the DBpedia community project, including its architecture, technical implementation, maintenance, internationalisation, and usage statistics, and showcase some popular DBpedia applications.

Travel Grants / Sponsorship

Some of the DBpedia developers work on DBpedia in their free-time and will not have institutional funding to come to the meeting. Therefore, we are still looking for sponsors for travel grants (as well as coffee and food for the sessions). If you are interested in sponsoring this meeting, please email our sponsorship chair to request more information.

Participants can apply for a travel grant by filling out a form or emailing Sebastian (who will fill out the same form on your behalf 😉 ). Assuming we acquire a sponsor, these grants will be awarded depending on community activity (i.e., Google Summer of Code participation, Git Commits to DBpedia framework, activity on the mailing lists, etc.) and standing.

Quick Facts

Acknowledgements

	We would especially like to thank Bibliotheek.nl – Public Libraries of the Netherlands for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter.
	Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National library of the Netherlands for supporting the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and providing coffee, lunch, and drinks for the meeting.
	Semantic Web Company for providing coffee, lunch, and drinks for the meeting
	Institute for Applied Informatics
	VU Amsterdam kindly provided the facilities for the meeting, with special thanks to Lora Aroyo from BiographyNet
	OpenLink Software for continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

• Gerard Kuys, Dutch DBpedia
• Gerald Wildenbeest, Dutch DBpedia
• Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam
• Victor de Boar, VU Amsterdam
• Mariano Rico, Spanish DBpedia, OEG, UPM Madrid
• Dimitris Kontokostas, Dutch and Greece DBpedia, AKSW, Uni Leipzig
• Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia, AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Participants and Registration

You can register by adding yourself here or send an email to one of the organizers. Registration is free.
See all the people attending the meeting. If you can’t find your name in there you can add it here, and it will show up after a while (30 min or more).

Location / Venue

The meeting will be held in the VU Amsterdam University in Netherlands.
We will use the Medical Faculty building ( behind the high main building, nr 6 on the map ) and the following rooms: MF-G613, MF-A311, MF-A301, MD-B034

Schedule

Co-located with the PiLOD 2.0 meeting

PiLOD (Platform implementatie Linked Open Data) organizes a meeting on the 29th of January. The program can be found on the main page at http://www.pilod.nl and further information is available here: [1] and [2] (in Dutch).