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Leipzig is calling for the next DBpedia Community Meeting.
September 7, 2016During 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 -
Call For Participation: 7th DBpedia Community Meeting in Leipzig
June 24, 2016Following our successful meetings in Europe & US our next DBpedia meeting will be held at Leipzig on September 15th, co-located with SEMANTiCS. * Highlights * – Keynote by Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata – A session for the “DBpedia references and citations challenge” – A session on DBpedia ontology by … read more -
DBpedia citations & references challenge
June 7, 2016In 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 @ BIS 2016
June 2, 2016DBpedia 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 @ Google Summer of Code 2016
April 26, 2016DBpedia 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 -
YEAH! We did it !! (and it is not an April fool’s joke) – New 2015-10 DBpedia release
April 1, 2016We proudly present our new 2015-10 DBpedia release, which is abailable now via: http://dbpedia.org/sparql. Go an check it out! This DBpedia release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from October 2015 featuring a significantly expanded base of information as well as richer and cleaner data based on the … read more -
Have you backlinked your data yet? – A retrospective of the 6th DBpedia community meeting in The Hague
March 23, 2016We thought it was about time to go orange again, meet the Dutch DBpedia Chapter and to meet and celebrate the growing dutch DBpedia community. Thus, following our successful US-event past November, the National Library of the Netherlands hosted the 6th DBpedia community meeting in The Hague on … read more -
6th DBpedia Community Meeting in The Hague 2016
February 9, 20163 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 -
GSoC 2015 is gone, long live GSoC 2016
January 27, 2016The 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 -
A retrospective of the 5th DBpedia community meeting in California
January 15, 2016A 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