Library Cataloging
Image via WikipediaDBpedia has a new version ready to be downloaded.
- Dbpedia Spotlight - Text Annotation Toolkit Released
Interesting tool released from DBpedia. We are happy to announce a first release of DBpedia Spotlight - Shedding Light on the Web of Documents. The amount of data in the Linked Open Data cloud is steadily increasing. Interlinking text documents with...
- Dbpedia 3.5 Released
Image via WikipediaWork continues on DBpedia.We are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.5. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from March 2010. Compared to the 3.4 release, we were able to increase the quality of the DBpedia knowledge...
- Virtual International Authority File Now Linked Data
Some interesting news about the VIAF.As promised in an earlier post, VIAF (the Virtual International Authority File) is now available as linked data. For those not familiar with VIAF, it is a merger of nearly 20 national-level name authority files (currently...
- Dbpedia Tools
Some useful tools from the DBpedia folk.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...
- Linked Data
A couple of articles on linked data.Linked Data - The Story So Far by Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, and Tim Berners-LeeThe term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. These best practices...
Library Cataloging
DBpedia 3.7 Released
Image via WikipediaDBpedia has a new version ready to be downloaded.we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.7. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from late July 2011.
The new DBpedia data set describes more than 3.64 million things, of which 1.83 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 416,000 persons, 526,000 places, 106,000 music albums, 60,000 films, 17,500 video games, 169,000 organizations, 183,000 species and 5,400 diseases.
The DBpedia data set features labels and abstracts for 3.64 million things in up to 97 different languages; 2,724,000 links to images and 6,300,000 links to external web pages; 6,200,000 external links into other RDF datasets, and 740,000 Wikipedia categories. The dataset consists of 1 billion pieces of information (RDF triples) out of which 385 million were extracted from the English edition of Wikipedia and roughly 665 million were extracted from other language editions and links to external datasets.
- Dbpedia Spotlight - Text Annotation Toolkit Released
Interesting tool released from DBpedia. We are happy to announce a first release of DBpedia Spotlight - Shedding Light on the Web of Documents. The amount of data in the Linked Open Data cloud is steadily increasing. Interlinking text documents with...
- Dbpedia 3.5 Released
Image via WikipediaWork continues on DBpedia.We are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.5. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from March 2010. Compared to the 3.4 release, we were able to increase the quality of the DBpedia knowledge...
- Virtual International Authority File Now Linked Data
Some interesting news about the VIAF.As promised in an earlier post, VIAF (the Virtual International Authority File) is now available as linked data. For those not familiar with VIAF, it is a merger of nearly 20 national-level name authority files (currently...
- Dbpedia Tools
Some useful tools from the DBpedia folk.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...
- Linked Data
A couple of articles on linked data.Linked Data - The Story So Far by Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, and Tim Berners-LeeThe term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. These best practices...