DBpedia Archive

Month: November 2013

  • Making sense out of the Wikipedia categories (GSoC2013)

    November 29, 2013
    (Part of our DBpedia+spotlight @ GSoC mini blog series) Mentor: Marco Fossati @hjfocs <fossati[at]spaziodati.eu> Student: Kasun Perera <kkasunperera[at]gmail.com> The latest version of the DBpedia ontology has 529 classes. It is not well balanced and shows a lack of coverage in terms of encyclopedic knowledge representation. Furthermore, the current typing … read more
  • DBpedia as Tables released

    November 25, 2013
    As some of the potential users of DBpedia might not be familiar with the RDF data model and the SPARQL query language, we provide some of the core DBpedia 3.9 data also in tabular form as Comma-Seperated-Values (CSV) files which can easily be processed using standard tools such as spreadsheet applications, relational databases or data mining tools. For each class in the DBpedia ontology (such as Person, Radio Station, … read more