Re: AW: ANN: DBpedia 3.6 released

Haha, I went to that page but immediately skipped the header and went 
downward to the datasets links...

Thanks a lot.


Regards,
AZ.

Le 19/01/2011 16:58, Chris Bizer a écrit :
> Hi Antoine,
>
>> I was wondering: do you keep older versions of the DBpedia datasets?
>
> we do and they are all reachable from the DBpedia download page at
>
> http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads36
>
> Just click on the "Older Versions" links.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] Im
>> Auftrag von Antoine Zimmermann
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011 16:49
>> An: Chris Bizer
>> Cc: dbpedia-announcements@lists.sourceforge.net; dbpedia-
>> discussion@lists.sourceforge.net; 'Semantic Web'; 'public-lod'
>> Betreff: Re: ANN: DBpedia 3.6 released
>>
>> Dear Chris and the DBpedia crew,
>>
>>
>> As always, a new version of DBpedia is very good news for the Semantic
>> Web and Linked Data.
>>
>> I was wondering: do you keep older versions of the DBpedia datasets?
>> If yes, would you allow people to download older versions for research
>> purposes?
>>
>> This would be very useful in order to study the dynamics of RDF data, or
>> the dynamics of DBpedia itself. There are already papers on the dynamics
>> of Wikipedia but I am not aware of corresponding work for DBPedia.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> AZ.
>>
>> Le 17/01/2011 14:10, Chris Bizer a écrit :
>>   >  Hi 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, 99,000 music albums, 54,000 films, 16,500
> video
>>   >  games, 148,000 organizations, 148,000 species and 5,200 diseases.
>>   >
>>   >  The DBpedia dataset features labels and abstracts for 3.5 million
>> things in
>>   >  up to 97 different languages; 1,850,000 links to images and 5,900,000
>> links
>>   >  to external web pages; 6,500,000 external links into other RDF
>> datasets, and
>>   >  632,000 Wikipedia categories.
>>   >
>>   >  The dataset consists of 672 million pieces of information (RDF
>> triples) out
>>   >  of which 286 million were extracted from the English edition of
> Wikipedia
>>   >  and 386 million were extracted from other language editions and links
> to
>>   >  external datasets.
>>   >
>>   >  Along with the release of the new datasets, we are happy to announce
> the
>>   >  initial release of the DBpedia MappingTool
>>   >  (http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/MappingTool): a graphical user
>>   >  interface to support the community in creating and editing mappings
>> as well
>>   >  as the ontology.
>>   >
>>   >  The new release provides the following improvements and changes
>> compared to
>>   >  the DBpedia 3.5.1 release:
>>   >
>>   >  1. Improved DBpedia Ontology as well as improved Infobox mappings
>> using
>>   >  http://mappings.dbpedia.org/.
>>   >
>>   >  Furthermore, there are now also mappings in languages other than
>> English.
>>   >  These improvements are largely due to collective work by the community.
>>   >  There are 13.8 million RDF statements based on mappings (11.1 million
> in
>>   >  version 3.5.1). All this data is in the /ontology/ namespace. Note
>> that this
>>   >  data is of much higher quality than the Raw Infobox data in the
>> /property/
>>   >  namespace.
>>   >
>>   >  Statistics of the mappings wiki on the date of release 3.6:
>>   >
>>   >  + Mappings:
>>   >        + English: 315 Infobox mappings (covers 1124 templates including
>>   >  redirects)
>>   >        + Greek: 137 Infobox mappings (covers 192 templates including
>>   >  redirects)
>>   >        + Hungarian: 111 Infobox mappings (covers 151 templates including
>>   >  redirects)
>>   >        + Croatian: 36 Infobox mappings (covers 67 templates including
>>   >  redirects)
>>   >        + German: 9 Infobox mappings
>>   >        + Slovenian: 4 Infobox mappings
>>   >  + Ontology:
>>   >        +  272 classes
>>   >  +  Properties:
>>   >        + 629 object properties
>>   >        + 706 datatype properties (they are all in the /datatype/
>> namespace)
>>   >
>>   >  2.  Some commonly used property names changed.
>>   >
>>   >  + Please see http://dbpedia.org/ChangeLog and
>>   >  http://dbpedia.org/Datasets/Properties to know which relations
>> changed and
>>   >  update your applications accordingly!
>>   >
>>   >  3. New Datatypes for increased quality in mapping-based properties
>>   >
>>   >  + xsd:positiveInteger, xsd:nonNegativeInteger, xsd:nonPositiveInteger,
>>   >  xsd:negativeInteger
>>   >
>>   >  4. Improved parsing coverage.
>>   >
>>   >  + Parsing of lists of elements in Infobox property values that
>> improves the
>>   >  completeness of extracted facts.
>>   >  + Method to deal with missing repeated links in Infoboxes that do
> appear
>>   >  somewhere else on the page.
>>   >  + Flag templates are parsed.
>>   >  + Various improvements on internationalization.
>>   >
>>   >  5. Improved recognition of
>>   >
>>   >  + Wikipedia namespace identifiers.
>>   >  + Wikipedia language codes.
>>   >  + Category hierarchies.
>>   >
>>   >  6. Disambiguation links for acronyms (all upper-case title) are now
>>   >  extracted (for example, Kilobyte and Knowledge_base for "KB"):
>>   >
>>   >  + Wikilinks consisting of multiple words: If the starting letters of
> the
>>   >  words appear in correct order (with possible gaps) and cover all
> acronym
>>   >  letters.
>>   >  + Wikilinks consisting of a single word: If the case-insensitive
> longest
>>   >  common subsequence with the acronym is equal to the acronym.
>>   >
>>   >  7. Encoding (bugfixes):
>>   >
>>   >  + The new datasets support the complete range of Unicode code points
>> (up to
>>   >  0x10ffff). 16-bit code points start with '\u', code points larger than
>>   >  16-bits start with '\U'.
>>   >  + Commas and ampersands do not get encoded anymore in URIs. Please
>> see
>>   >  http://dbpedia.org/URIencoding for an explanation regarding the
>> DBpedia URI
>>   >  encoding scheme.
>>   >
>>   >  8. Extended Datasets:
>>   >
>>   >  + Thanks to Johannes Hoffart (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik) for
>>   >  contributing links to YAGO2.
>>   >  + Freebase links have been updated. They now refer to mids
>>   >  (http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Machine_ID) because guids have been
>>   >  deprecated.
>>   >
>>   >  You can download the new DBpedia dataset from
>> http://dbpedia.org/Downloads36
>>   >
>>   >  As usual, the dataset is also available as Linked Data and via the
>> DBpedia
>>   >  SPARQL endpoint at http://dbpedia.org/sparql
>>   >
>>   >  Lots of thanks to:
>>   >
>>   >  + All editors that contributed to the DBpedia ontology mappings via the
>>   >  Mappings Wiki.
>>   >  + Max Jakob (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) for improving the
> DBpedia
>>   >  extraction framework and for extracting the new datasets.
>>   >  + Robert Isele and Anja Jentzsch (both Freie Universität Berlin,
> Germany)
>>   >  for helping Max with their expertise on the extraction framework.
>>   >  + Paul Kreis (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) for analyzing the
>> DBpedia
>>   >  data of the previous release and suggesting ways to increase quality
> and
>>   >  quantity. Some results of his work were implemented in this release.
>>   >  + Dimitris Kontokostas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
>> Greece), Jimmy
>>   >  O'Regan (Eolaistriu Technologies, Ireland), José Paulo Leal
>> (University of
>>   >  Porto, Portugal) for providing patches to improve the extraction
>> framework.
>>   >  + Jens Lehmann and Sören Auer (both Universität Leipzig, Germany) for
>>   >  providing the new dataset via the DBpedia download server at
> Universität
>>   >  Leipzig.
>>   >  + Kingsley Idehen and Mitko Iliev (both OpenLink Software) for
>> loading the
>>   >  dataset into the Virtuoso instance that serves the Linked Data view and
>>   >  SPARQL endpoint. OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/)
>> altogether
>>   >  for providing the server infrastructure for DBpedia.
>>   >
>>   >  The work on the new release was financially supported by:
>>   >
>>   >  + Neofonie GmbH, a Berlin-based company offering leading technologies
>> in the
>>   >  area of Web search, social media and mobile applications
>>   >  (http://www.neofonie.de/).
>>   >  + The European Commission through the project LOD2 - Creating
>> Knowledge out
>>   >  of Linked Data (http://lod2.eu/).
>>   >  + Vulcan Inc. as part of its Project Halo
> (http://www.projecthalo.com/).
>>   >  Vulcan Inc. creates and advances a variety of world-class endeavors
>> and high
>>   >  impact initiatives that change and improve the way we live, learn, do
>>   >  business (http://www.vulcan.com/).
>>   >
>>   >  More information about DBpedia is found at http://dbpedia.org/About
>>   >
>>   >  Have fun with the new dataset!
>>   >
>>   >  The whole DBpedia team also congratulates Wikipedia to its 10th
> Birthday
>>   >  which was this weekend!
>>   >
>>   >  Cheers,
>>   >
>>   >  Chris Bizer
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >  --
>>   >  Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer
>>   >  Web-based Systems Group
>>   >  Freie Universität Berlin
>>   >  +49 30 838 55509
>>   >  http://www.bizer.de
>>   >  chris@bizer.de
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Antoine Zimmermann
>> Researcher at:
>> Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information
>> Database Group
>> 7 Avenue Jean Capelle
>> 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
>> France
>> Lecturer at:
>> Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
>> 20 Avenue Albert Einstein
>> 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
>> France
>> antoine.zimmermann@insa-lyon.fr
>> http://zimmer.aprilfoolsreview.com/
>


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Database Group
7 Avenue Jean Capelle
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
France
Lecturer at:
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
20 Avenue Albert Einstein
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex
France
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