Work with Data? Know Wikipedia… What about DBpedia?
Doing some research on Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and 3.0, Open Data, I came across quite a few interesting articles and links about RDF, RDFa and one pointing to DBpedia…
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
The DBpedia data set is a large multi-domain ontology which has been derived from Wikipedia. The DBpedia data set currently describes 2.6 million “things” with 274 million “facts”
The DBpedia data set currently consists of around 274 million RDF triples, which have been extracted from the English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Finnish and Norwegian versions of Wikipedia.
Interesting things to do w/ DBpedia:
- Query the DBpedia using SPARQL at: http://dbpedia.org/sparql (or other query builders: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess)
- use DBMobile a location-centric client for Mobile w/ information on over 300,000 geographic locations: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaMobile
- other use cases: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/UseCases
More information, including downloadable datasets, available at: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/
