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DBpedia - A Crystallization Point for the Web of Data

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Christian Bizer

University of Mannheim - Data and Web Science Group

Jens Lehmann

University of Leipzig - Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)

Georgi Kobilarov

Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Web-Based Systems Group

Sören Auer

University of Leipzig - Department of Computer Science

Christian Becker

Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Web-Based Systems Group

Richard Cyganiak

University of Galway - Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)

Sebastian Hellmann

University of Leipzig - Department of Computer Science

Abstract

The DBpedia project is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information accessible on the Web. The resulting DBpedia knowledge base currently describes over 2.6 million entities. For each of these entities, DBpedia defines a globally unique identifier that can be dereferenced over the Web into a rich RDF description of the entity, including human-readable definitions in 30 languages, relationships to other resources, classifications in four concept hierarchies, various facts as well as data-level links to other Web data sources describing the entity. Over the last year, an increasing number of data publishers have begun to set data-level links to DBpedia resources, making DBpedia a central interlinking hub for the emerging Web of Data. Currently, the Web of interlinked data sources around DBpedia provides approximately 4.7 billion pieces of information and covers domains such as geographic information, people, companies, films, music, genes, drugs, books, and scientific publications. This article describes the extraction of the DBpedia knowledge base, the current status of interlinking DBpedia with other data sources on the Web, and gives an overview of applications that facilitate the Web of Data around DBpedia.

Keywords: Web of Data, Linked Data, Knowledge Extraction, Wikipedia, RDF

Suggested Citation

Bizer, Christian and Lehmann, Jens and Kobilarov, Georgi and Auer, Sören and Becker, Christian and Cyganiak, Richard and Hellmann, Sebastian, DBpedia - A Crystallization Point for the Web of Data (September 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3199424 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3199424

Christian Bizer (Contact Author)

University of Mannheim - Data and Web Science Group

L 5, 2 - 2. OG
68161 Mannheim
Germany

Jens Lehmann

University of Leipzig - Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) ( email )

Augustusplatz 10/11
Leipzig, 04109
Germany

Georgi Kobilarov

Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Web-Based Systems Group

Van't-Hoff-Str. 8
Berlin, 14195
Germany

Sören Auer

University of Leipzig - Department of Computer Science ( email )

Augustusplatz 10/11
Leipzig, 04109
Germany

Christian Becker

Free University of Berlin (FUB) - Web-Based Systems Group

Van't-Hoff-Str. 8
Berlin, 14195
Germany

Richard Cyganiak

University of Galway - Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) ( email )

University Road
Galway, Co. Kildare
Ireland

Sebastian Hellmann

University of Leipzig - Department of Computer Science

Augustusplatz 10/11
Leipzig, 04109
Germany

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