We are pleased to announce the release of DBpedia 3.3. This release is based on Wikipedia dumps of May 2009.

The new release includes the following improvements over DBpedia 3.2:

1. more accurate abstract extraction
2. labels and abstracts in 80 languages
3. several infobox extraction bugfixes
4. new links to Dailymed, Diseasome, Drugbank, Sider, TCM
5. updated Open Cyc links

You can find the datasets here, and the rdf files here. The dataset is available to be queried at our Sparql endpoint.

After eight long months without DBpedia release (due to a lack of Wikipedia dumps), today’s release will bring us up to speed again, and we will release DBpedia datasets much more often in the future.

DBpedia exposes semantics extracted from one of the largest information sources on the Web. But one of the nice things about the Web is the variety and wealth of content (including your Blog, Wiki, CMS or other WebApp). In order to make this large variety of small Websites better mashable and bring them on the Semantic Web the makers of DBpedia released technologies, which dramatically simplify the “semantification” of your Websites. Please check out Triplify (a generic plugin for Webapps with preconfigurations for Drupal, Wordpress, WackoWiki), D2RQ (a Java software for mapping and serving relational DB content for the Semantic Web) and Virtuoso (a comprehensive DB, knowledge store infrastructure).

Christian Becker (Freie Universität Berlin) has implemented a wrapper around flickr which generates photo collections depicting DBpedia concepts. See flickr wrappr for details. We have interlinked all DBpedia concepts with the corresponding photo collections. You can now use any Semantic Web browser to navigate from a DBpedia concept to flickr  photos depicting it by following the dbpedia:hasPictureCollection property. This means an additional 30-50 million photos are accessible through DBpedia.

For example, click on the URIs below or paste them into your Semantic Web browser:

Photos depicting Brandenburg Gate: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/flickrwrappr/photos/Brandenburg_Gate
DBpedia URI for Brandenburg Gate : http://dbpedia.org/resource/Brandenburg_Gate

All DBpedia URIs are now dereferencable meaning that you can browse the DBpedia dataset with Semantic Web browsers like Disco or Tabulator.