http://blog.dbpedia.org Querying Wikipedia like a Database. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:41:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The German federal government has proclaimed Faceted Wikipedia Search as one of the 365 most innovative ideas in Germany in the context of the Deutschland – Land der Ideen competition. The competition showcases innovative ideas in areas such as science and technology, business, education, art and ecology. The patron of the competition is ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/11/20/german-government-proclaims-faceted-wikipedia-search-one-of-the-365-best-ideas-in-germany/ We are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.4. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from September 2009. The new DBpedia data set describes more than 2.9 million things, including 282,000 persons, 339,000 places, 88,000 music albums, 44,000 films, 15,000 video games, 119,000 organizations, 130,000 species and ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/11/11/dbpedia-34-released/ We are pleased to announce the release of the DBpedia Faceted Browser by Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt as well as the DBpedia User Script by Anja Jentzsch. The DBpedia Faceted Browser allows you to explore Wikipedia via a faceted browsing interface. It supports keyword queries and offers relevant facets to narrow down ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/09/22/dbpedia-faceted-browser-and-dbpedia-user-script-released/ 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, ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/07/03/dbpedia-33-released/ The 3Sat computer magazine 'neues' has broadcasted a feature about Linked Data and DBpedia and the roles both efforts are playing in the evolution of the Web into a medium for the publication and linkage of data. See: Komplett verlinkt (Description of the broadcast, German) Broadcast, 3Sat, 21.6.2009 (German) Background information: DBpedia – A Crystallization Point ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/06/27/3sat-tv-magazine-features-linked-data-and-dbpedia/ Chris Bizer and Christian Becker will be at the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up  in Berlin this week-end. So if you are also there and you are interested in DBpedia, just grap us. If we manage to get hold of the beamer and people are interested, we might also present the following slides http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/pub/WikiMediaDevMeeting-DBpedia-Talk.pdf See you ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/04/02/dbpedia-at-the-mediawiki-developer-meet-up-april-3-5-in-berlin/ Kingsley announced on Tuesday that the first of data sets from the LOD community including DBpedia have been uploaded to the Amazon's public data set hosting facility. Thus you can now do the following: Download DBpedia data from Amazon's hosting facility at no cost to your own data center ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2009/02/27/dbpedia-now-part-of-amazon-public-data-sets/ we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia version 3.2. The new knowledge base has been extracted from the October 2008 Wikipedia dumps. Compared to the last release, the new knowledge base provides three mayor improvements: 1. DBpedia Ontology DBpedia now features a shallow, cross-domain ontology, which has been manually created based ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/11/17/dbpedia-version-32-released-including-the-new-dbpedia-ontology/ Freebase is an open-license database which provides data about million of things from various domains. Freebase has recently released an Linked Data interface to their content (See release note). As there is a big overlap between DBpedia and Freebase, we have added 2.4 million RDF links to DBpedia pointing at the corresponding things in Freebase. These links can ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/11/15/dbpedia-is-now-interlinked-with-freebase-links-to-opencyc-updated/ We are happy to announce that DBpedia Mobile has won the 2nd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference. DBpedia Mobile is a location-aware client for the Semantic Web that can be used on an iPhone and other mobile devices. Based on the current GPS position ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/11/02/dbpedia-mobile-won-the-2nd-prize-of-the-semantic-web-challenge-2008/