Talk was given here: http://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/Mannheim-DE/1092882/

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
http://dbpedia.org

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Introduction
http://dbpedia.org

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Introduction
http://dbpedia.org

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Introduction
Query Wikipedia Like a Database
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess
http://nl.dbpedia.org/page/Amsterdam
http://dbpedia.org

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Problems & Challenges
Research vs Development
http://dbpedia.org

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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:
http://dbpedia.org

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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:
http://dbpedia.org

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http://dbpedia.org
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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http://dbpedia.org
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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http://dbpedia.org
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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http://dbpedia.org
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
http://dbpedia.org

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DBpedia Data Stack
http://dbpedia.org

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DBpedia Committee Lifecycle
http://dbpedia.org

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DBpedia Data Curation Lifecycle
http://dbpedia.org

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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
http://dbpedia.org

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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
http://dbpedia.org