DBpedia Blog

  • DBpedia @ GSoC 2017 – Call for students

    March 3, 2017
    DBpedia will participate for a fifth time in the Google Summer of Code program (GSoC) and now we are looking for students who will share their ideas with us. We are regularly growing our community through GSoC and can deliver more and more opportunities to you. We got excited … read more
  • DBpedia strategy survey

    February 22, 2017
    Dear DBpedians, Sören Auer and the DBpedia Board members prepared a survey to assess the direction of the DBpedia Association. We would like to know what you think should be our priorities and how you would like the funds of the association to be used. Your opinion counts – … read more
  • DBpedia @ GSoC 2017 – Call for ideas & mentors

    January 19, 2017
    Dear DBpedians, As previous years, we would like your input for DBpedia related project ideas for GSoC 2017. For those who are unfamiliar with GSoC (Google Summer of Code), Google pays students (BSc, MSc, PhD) to work for 3 months on an open source project. Open source organizations announce … read more
  • Snapshot Release

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  • DBpedia in Dutch: formalizing the chapter by signing the Memorandum of Understanding

    November 28, 2016
    The DBpedia community and members from over 20 countries work hard to localize and internationalize DBpedia and support the extraction of non-English Wikipedia editions as well as build a data community around a certain language, region or special interest. The chapters are part of the DBpedia executives and have … read more
  • DBpedia meetup in Poznan

    November 21, 2016
    After our successful meeting in Poznan in 2015, we thought it is time to meet the Polish DBpedia community again. The DBpedia meetup will be held on 22th of November 2016 at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. This meetup aims at the presentation of semantic web technologies … read more
  • Retrospective: 2nd US DBpedia Community meeting in California

    November 10, 2016
    After the largest DBpedia meeting to date we decided it was time to cross the Atlantic for the second time for another meetup. Two weeks ago the 8th DBpedia Community Meeting was held in Sunnyvale, California on October 27th 2016. Main Event Pablo Mendes from Lattice Data Inc. opened … read more
  • California is calling for the next DBpedia Community Meeting.

    October 26, 2016
    Less than 24 hours left to reserve your seat for our 2nd US DBpedia Community meeting. The meeting will be held in Sunnyvale on October 27th 2016, hosted by Yahoo. Over 85 participants registered so far, we will offer 20 more tickets. So come and get your ticket to … read more
  • YEAH! We did it again ;) – New 2016-04 DBpedia release

    October 19, 2016
    Hereby we announce the release of DBpedia 2016-04. The new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from March/April 2016 featuring a significantly expanded base of information as well as richer and (hopefully) cleaner data based on the DBpedia ontology. You can download the new DBpedia datasets in … read more
  • Call For Participation: 8th DBpedia Community Meeting in California

    October 18, 2016
    Very shortly after the largest DBpedia meeting to date we are crossing Atlantic for the second time. We are happy to announce that the 8th DBpedia Community Meeting will be held in Sunnyvale on October 27th 2016, hosted by Yahoo. The event will feature talks from Yahoo, IBM Watson, … read more
  • More than 150 DBpedia enthusiasts @ the 7th Community Meeting in Leipzig

    September 30, 2016
    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