The document discusses the DBpedia project, which extracts structured data from Wikipedia to build a multilingual knowledge graph. It describes DBpedia's goals of making this data openly available and supporting its community. The DBpedia Association is being formed as a non-profit to oversee the infrastructure and support contributors. Funding will come from donations and sponsorships. Upcoming events include the DBpedia Community Meeting coinciding with the SEMANTiCS conference in September.

1. Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data
http://dbpedia.org
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The DBpedia Project
A Public Data Infrastructure
for a
Large, Multilingual, Semantic Knowledge Graph
Sebastian Hellmann and Dimitris Kontokostas
LOD2 Presentation . 02.09.2010 . Page
AKSW, InfAI, Universität Leipzig
http://lod2.eu

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Introduction
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Introduction
Query Wikipedia Like a Database
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess
http://nl.dbpedia.org/page/Amsterdam
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Problems & Challenges
Research vs Development
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Problems & Challenges
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DBpedia is excellent for Research:
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DBpedia - A crystallization point for the web of data
by Lehmann and Bizer ~ 900 citations
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High number of research contributions using DBpedia
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Good number of FP7 and also H2020 projects
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Outreach into domains beyond the Semantic Web:
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Problems & Challenges
DBpedia structure is not yet fit to bridge the gap to Development
• Research prototypes lack:
– maturity, documentation and usability
• Industrial requirements:
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DBpedia Association
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Within the next 14 days the DBpedia Association will be operational and
reach official status as a legal entity
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Not-for-profit
Main goal is to support the:
DBpedia Contributors Community

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Goals of the DBpedia Project
Extract structured data from all available content created by Wikipedians (and other
open-data projects) in all languages
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Cross-national DBpedia chapter interlinking and data fusion/completion
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Uphold a free, public data infrastructure to exploit this wealth of data
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Support the Linked Data Community (and in particular the DBpedia Community) to
clean, publish, enrich, interlink their data
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Move from Research on to Development
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Bring together publishers and consumers
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Improve structured data in Wikipedia
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Establish co-operations with other like-minded projects and organisations
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Education and training on DBpedia
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DBpedia Association Board
Executive Board:
Sebastian Hellmann, Michael Martin, Dimitris Kontokostas
International Board of Trustees (for the main infrastructure): Sören Auer, Chris
Bizer, Kingsley Idehen
Local Boards of Trustees:
German: Adrian Paschke, Harald Sack, Sebastian Hellmann
Polish: Witold Abramowicz, Agata Filipowska
Dutch: Gerard Kuys
Spanish: Asun Gomez-Perez
French: Fabien Gandon
Italian: Michele Barbera
Greek: Charalampos Bratsas
Korean: Key-Sun Choi
Japanese: Hideaki Takeda

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Funding sources
Donations
DBpedia Project accepts donations for:
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International Chapter (for the main infrastructure and data)
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Local Chapters (e.g. http://nl.dbpedia.org, http://de.dbpedia.org)
All donors will be mentioned and highlighted on the DBpedia membership page
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All donations will be published as linked data and each donor will get a Linked
Data URI.
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Sponsorship
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Add a premium DBpedia support badge on your website
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Mentioning at the DBpedia Community Meeting

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DBpedia Community Meeting
SEMANTiCS 2014
10th International Conference on Semantic Systems
(Formerly i-Semantics in Graz)
Transfer / Engineering / Community
September 4-5 in Leipzig, Germany
http://semantics.cc
Co-located with:
2nd DBpedia Community Meeting on September 3rd
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DBpedia Data Stack
http://dbpedia.org

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DBpedia Committee Lifecycle
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DBpedia Data Curation Lifecycle
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DBpedia Association Programs
Internship Program
→ training on SPARQL and SW technology
→ train your employees on Dbpedia (and Linked Data)
Developer Program
→ allow developers to participate in DBpedia (e.g. 10% rule)
Data Persistency Program
→ persistent URI and data hosting
Data Quality Program
→ DBpedia+ data and validation report / domain-specific data
(Research) Project Support Program
→ General advice/support, deliverable review, technical validation,
workshops/training, provision of infrastructure
→ sustainable consolidation of results
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DBpedia in 2014
Thank you!
Sebastian Hellmann
http://dbpedia.org
Feedback:
hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/kurzum
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