DBpedia Blog

  • DBpedia Spotlight has been selected for Google Summer of Code. Please apply now!

    March 22, 2012
    The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers (BSc,MSc,PhD) stipends to write code for open source software projects. It has had thousands of participants since the first edition in 2005, connecting prospective students with mentors from open source communities such as Debian, KDE, … read more
  • DBpedia 3.7 released, including 15 localized Editions

    September 11, 2011
    Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.7. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from late July 2011. The new DBpedia data set describes more than 3.64 million things, of which 1.83 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 416,000 persons, … read more
  • Official DBpedia Live Release

    July 9, 2011
    We are pleased to announce the official release of DBpedia Live. The main objective of DBpedia is to extract structured information from Wikipedia, convert it into RDF, and make it freely available on the Web. In a nutshell, DBpedia is the Semantic Web mirror of Wikipedia. Wikipedia users constantly … read more
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  • OpenData Challenge awards 20.000€ prizes to open public data apps

    May 6, 2011
    European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year – about everything from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe. The Opendata competition aims to challenge designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, … read more
  • DBpedia Spotlight – Text Annotation Toolkit released

    February 15, 2011
    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
  • DBpedia 3.6 AMI Available

    January 31, 2011
    In line with prior releases of DBpedia, there is a new 3.6 edition of the DBpedia AMI available from Amazon EC2. What is a DBpedia AMI? A preconfigured Virtuoso Cluster Edition database that includes a preloaded DBpedia dataset. The entire deliverable is packaged as an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI); … read more
  • DBpedia 3.6 released

    January 17, 2011
    Hi all,  we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.6. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from October/November 2010.   The new DBpedia dataset describes more than 3.5 million things, of which 1.67 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 364,000 persons, 462,000 places, … read more
  • Links to DBpedia from Ontos NLP web services

    October 20, 2010
    The NLP specialist Ontos extends the quality and amount of information for developers by integrating its news portal into the Linked Data Cloud. Ontos’ GUIDs for objects are now dereferencable – the resulting RDF contains owl:sameAs-attributes to DBpedia, Freebase and others (cf. e.g the entry for Barack Obama). Within … read more
  • DBpedia 3.5.1 available on Amazon EC2

    August 10, 2010
    As the Amazon Web Services are getting used a lot for cloud computing, we have started to provide current snapshots of the DBpedia dataset for this environment. We provide the DBpedia dataset for Amazon Web Services in two ways: 1. Source files for being mounted:  http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2319 2. Virtuoso SPARQL store for being instanciated: http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtAWSDBpedia351C  read more
  • DBpedia 3.5.1 released

    April 28, 2010
    Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.5.1. This is primarily a bugfix release, which is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from March 2010. Thanks to the great community feedback about the previous DBpedia release, we were able to resolve the reported issues as well … read more