New DBpedia Overview Article Available

All,

FYI.


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Subject: 	[Dbpedia-discussion] New DBpedia Overview Article Available
Date: 	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:03:05 +0200
From: 	Jens Lehmann <lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
To: 	dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net



Dear all,

we are pleased to announce that a new overview article for DBpedia is
available: http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2013/SWJ_DBpedia/public.pdf

The report covers several aspects of the DBpedia community project:

* The DBpedia extraction framework.
* The mappings wiki as the central structure for maintaining the
community-curated DBpedia ontology.
* Statistics on the multilingual support in DBpedia.
* DBpedia live synchronisation with Wikipedia.
* Statistics on the interlinking of DBpedia with other parts of the LOD
cloud (incoming and outgoing links).
* Several usage statistics: What kind of queries are asked against
DBpedia and how did that change over the past years? How much traffic do
the official static and live endpoint as well as the download server
have? What are the most popular DBpedia datasets?
* A description of use cases and applications of DBpedia in several
areas (drop me mail if important applications are missing).
* The relation of DBpedia to the YAGO, Freebase and WikiData projects.
* Future challenges for the DBpedia project.

After our ISWC 2009 paper on DBpedia, this is the (long overdue) new
reference article for DBpedia, which should provide a good introduction
to the project. We submitted the article as a system report to the
Semantic Web journal, where it will be reviewed.

Thanks a lot to all article contributors and to all DBpedia developers
and users. Feel free to spread the information to interested groups and
users.

Kind regards,

Jens

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Dr. Jens Lehmann
AKSW/MOLE Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage: http://www.jens-lehmann.org
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