DBpedia – Querying Wikipedia like a Semantic Database
Semantic Web Journal launched
A short while ago the Semantic Web Journal was launched. Pascal Hitzler and Krzysztof Janowicz are editors-in-chief and AKSW’s Sören Auer serves on the editorial board. The journal published by IOS Press differs from other journals, in particular, since it follows an open and transparent peer-review process, which engages a wider community besides expert reviews. [...]
LESS - Content Syndication based on Linked Data
We’ve announced LESS today - an end-to-end approach for the syndication and use of linked data based on the definition of visualization templates for linked data resources and SPARQL query results.
Such syndication templates are edited, published and shared by using LESS’ collaborative Web platform. Templates for common types of entities can then be combined with [...]
Open Knowledge Conference 2010
OKCon, now in its fifth year, is the interdisciplinary conference that brings together individuals from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of presentations and workshops.
Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in a wide range of areas from governance to science, from culture to technology. Opening up access to content and data [...]
DBpedia in ReadWriteWeb?s Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009
The new year is slowly approaching and people start compiling their top x lists of 2009, with x usually ranging between 10 and 365.
The popular Web technology blog ReadWriteWeb has chosen x with value 10 and picked DBpedia as one of their top Semantic Web products of 2009. Its actually the only non-commercial [...]
DBpedia Live Extraction Test Server
We currently feature a live extraction of DBpedia on one of our servers. The live extraction is aimed at bringing Wikipedia and DBpedia closer together. Errors in DBpedia can soon be corrected directly by editing the corresponding Wikipedia article.
We created a test page on Wikipedia for observing the effects of the live extraction on [...]
Overview
Do you know all mayors from towns elevated higher than 1000m, all sitcoms set in New York, or all philosophers that were influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche?
Wikipedia contains information required for answering such questions, but has the problem that its constricted search capabilities only allow very limited access to this valuable knowledge-base. The Semantic Web still lacks a critical mass of RDF data online and up-to-date terms and ontologies are missing for many application domains.
The dbpedia.org project approaches both problems by extracting structured information from Wikipedia and by making this information available on the Web. dbpedia.org allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia (like the ones mentioned above) and to link other datasets on the Web to dbpedia data.
Features
dbpedia.org features at the moment:
- two large extracted datasets for different purposes
- a SPARQL endpoint and a data browser
- a visual query builder available at: http://wikipedia.aksw.org
More information about the project can be found at: http://dbpedia.org
Publications
Auer, S. and Lehmann, J., 
What have Innsbruck and Leipzig in common? Extracting semantics from wiki content. In: Franconi, E., Kifer, M., May, W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
AKSW Contributors
Claus StadlerInformation
Last Modification: 
2009-11-04 16:06:18 by Soeren Auer