http://blog.dbpedia.org Querying Wikipedia like a Database. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we released DBpedia 3.1. As always in the past years, the size of Wikipedia increased a lot over the past months. The new extraction contains 116,7 million triples, marking an increase of 27% over the previous version. Apart from the more recent Wikipedia dumps we used, some notable improvements are ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/08/18/dbpedia-31-breaks-100-million-triples-barrier/ 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 ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/05/11/dbpedia-mobile-released/ Together with this years I-Semantics conference we are organizing a Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge. The challenge aims at expediting the process of revealing and exposing structured representations, as does the DBpedia project for Wikipedia. Structured (relational) representations already back most of the existing Web sites. In addition to revealing these ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/04/19/lod-triplification-challenge/ 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 ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/03/20/want-to-bring-your-blog-wiki-webapp-to-the-semantic-web/ As already during the last 4 years we again organize this year a workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, co-located on June 1st with European Semantic Web Conference in Tenerife, Spain. Scripting languages as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby etc. will play a crucial role for getting the Semantic Web out ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/02/15/4th-eswc-workshop-on-scripting-for-the-semantic-web/ We announce the availability of the DBpedia 3.0 final release. Downloads are available at http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads. For a list of changes since DBpedia 2.0, see the Changelog. Most notably, multi-language support was improved, new linked data sets added, and extraction code improved. Compared to the 3.0 release candidate, a number of extraction ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2008/02/10/dbpedia-30-release/ Sören presented today the paper "DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data" at International Semantic Web Conference in Busan, Korea. You can view the slides at http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~auer/presentations/dbpedia/ http://blog.dbpedia.org/2007/11/13/dbpedia-presentation-at-iswc/ The commonsense knowledge base Cyc or OpenCyc (when compared to DBpedia) seems to follow a rather top-down approach – first more abstract concepts and entities are represented and later Cyc started to include also more domain knowledge. This seems to be reasonable, since domain knowledge changes faster and there is ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2007/10/03/dbpedia-cyc-linkage/ 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 ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2007/09/11/new-photo-collections-added-to-dbpedia/ After quite some work into improving the DBpedia information extraction framework, we have released a new version of the DBpedia dataset today. The renewed DBpedia dataset describes 1,950,000 "things", including at least 80,000 persons, 70,000 places, 35,000 music albums, 12,000 films. It contains 657,000 links to images, 1,600,000 links to relevant ... http://blog.dbpedia.org/2007/09/05/dbpedia-20-released/