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News from the DBpedia folks.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 3.8 Released
News from the DBpedia folks.
The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.7 are:The English version of the DBpedia knowledge base currently describes 3.77 million things, out of which 2.35 million are classified in a consistent Ontology, including 764,000 persons, 573,000 places (including 387,000 populated places), 333,000 creative works (including 112,000 music albums, 72,000 films and 18,000 video games), 192,000 organizations (including 45,000 companies and 42,000 educational institutions), 202,000 species and 5,500 diseases.
- the new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from late May / early June 2012.
- the DBpedia ontology is enlarged and the number of infobox to ontology mappings has risen.
- the DBpedia internationalization has progressed and we now provide localized versions of DBpedia in even more languages.
We provide localized versions of DBpedia in 111 languages. All these versions together describe 20.8 million things, out of which 10.5 mio overlap (are interlinked) with concepts from the English DBpedia. The full DBpedia data set features labels and abstracts for 10.3 million unique things in 111 different languages; 8.0 million links to images and 24.4 million HTML links to external web pages; 27.2 million data links into external RDF data sets, 55.8 million links to Wikipedia categories, and 8.2 million YAGO categories. The dataset consists of 1.89 billion pieces of information (RDF triples) out of which 400 million were extracted from the English edition of Wikipedia, 1.46 billion were extracted from other language editions, and about 27 million are data links into external RDF data sets.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...