DBpedia Blog

We are very pleased to announce that all of this year’s Google Summer of Code students made it successful through the program and passed their projects. All codes have been submitted, merged and are ready to be examined by the rest of the world. Marco Fossati, Dimitris Kontokostas, Tommaso Soru, Domenico Potena, … read more

Google summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development. During the 3 months summer break from university, students work on a programming projects  with an open source organization, like DBpedia.  We are part of this exciting program for more than 5 … read more

We are happy to announce that the 10th DBpedia Community Meeting will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. During the SEMANTiCS 2017, Sep 11-14, the DBpedia Community will get together on the 14th of September for the DBpedia Day. What cool things do you do with DBpedia? Present your tools … read more

After our 2nd Community Meeting in the US, we delighted the Irish DBpedia Community with the 9th DBpedia Community Meeting, which was co-located with the Language, Data and Knowledge Conference 2017 in Galway at the premises of the NUI Galway. First and foremost, we would like to thank John … read more

Sören Auer and the DBpedia Board members prepared a survey to assess the direction of the DBpedia Association. We wanted to know what the DBpedia Community thinks about DBpedia’s strategic priorities and how the funds of the DBpedia Association are be spent. Between February 2017 and April 2017, a … read more

We are happy to announce the new DBpedia Release. This release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from October 2016. You can download the new DBpedia datasets in N3 / TURTLE serialisation from http://wiki.dbpedia.org/downloads-2016-10 or directly here http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2016-10/. This release took us longer than expected. We had to … read more

We are happy to announce that the 9th DBpedia Community meeting will be held in Galway, Ireland on June 21st 2017. DBpedia will be part of the Language, Data and Knowledge conference (LDK) in Galway. This new biennial conference series aims at bringing together researchers from across disciplines. The … read more

New Internship Opportunity @ In conjunction with Springer Nature,  DBpedia offers a 3 months internship at Springer Nature in London, UK and at DBpedia in Leipzig, Germany. Internship Details Position DBpedia Intern Main Employer DBpedia Association Deadline June 30th, 2017 Duration 3 months/full-time, internship will starts in the second half of … read more

We are very excited to announce this year's final students for our projects at the Google Summer of Code program (GSoC). In this years GSoC edition, DBpedia received more than 30 submissions for selected DBpedia projects. Our mentors read many promising proposals, evaluated them and now the crême de la … read more

Do you want to stay informed about upcoming DBpedia events, releases and technical developments? Through the DBpedia newsletter you get the possibility to be always up to date and to provide feedback to us. Four times per year we will inform the DBpedia community about meetings, new collaborations and … read more