Year: 2011
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DBpedia 3.7 released, including 15 localized Editions
September 11, 2011Hi all, 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, … read more -
Official DBpedia Live Release
July 9, 2011We are pleased to announce the official release of DBpedia Live. The main objective of DBpedia is to extract structured information from Wikipedia, convert it into RDF, and make it freely available on the Web. In a nutshell, DBpedia is the Semantic Web mirror of Wikipedia. Wikipedia users constantly … read more -
OpenData Challenge awards 20.000€ prizes to open public data apps
May 6, 2011European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year – about everything from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe. The Opendata competition aims to challenge designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, … read more -
DBpedia Spotlight – Text Annotation Toolkit released
February 15, 2011We 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 this data enables the Web of Data to be used as background knowledge … read more -
DBpedia 3.6 AMI Available
January 31, 2011In line with prior releases of DBpedia, there is a new 3.6 edition of the DBpedia AMI available from Amazon EC2. What is a DBpedia AMI? A preconfigured Virtuoso Cluster Edition database that includes a preloaded DBpedia dataset. The entire deliverable is packaged as an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI); … read more -
DBpedia 3.6 released
January 17, 2011Hi all, we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.6. The new release is based on Wikipedia dumps dating from October/November 2010. The new DBpedia dataset describes more than 3.5 million things, of which 1.67 million are classified in a consistent ontology, including 364,000 persons, 462,000 places, … read more
