Freie Universität Berlin has released DBpedia Mobile.  Based on the current GPS position of a mobile device, DBpedia Mobile renders a map containing information about nearby locations from the DBpedia dataset (currently around 300,000 locations). DBpedia Mobile uses the Marbles Linked Data Browser to render Fresnel-based views for selected resources, as well as its SPARQL capabilities to build the map view. Starting from the map, users can explore background information about locations and can navigate into DBpedia and other interlinked datasets such as GeoNames, Revyu, EuroStat and Flickr.

More information about DBpedia Mobile is found on the project website.

The DBpedia Relationship Finder allows you to explore the DBpedia infobox dataset in order to find out which relations exist between two things. It can answer questions like “How are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?“. The new version includes, amongst other changes, better algorithms and the possibility to ignore objects and properties.

The debug interface allows you to run the current version of the DBpedia extraction code against the live version of Wikipedia. Just enter a page Id like ‘Berlin’ and check what the current code extracts. Please use the debug interface to check if a bug still accures with the current code before reporting the bugs to the DBpedia bug tracker.

The Relationship Finder explores the DBpedia dataset two find out which relations exist between two things. It can answer questions like “How
are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?“.

The search interface provides free-text search, result classification and display DBpedia data together with data from external sources. A documentation will be added soon. See Developer Blog.

There are two new applications using the DBpedia person data. Essai Timeline by Gautier Poupeau and WikiStory by Pierre Lindenbaum. As both applications are from France, our new French abstracts might be interesting for them.