Section: New Software and Platforms

DBpedia

Keywords: RDF - SPARQL

Functional Description: DBpedia is an international crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the semantic Web as linked open data. The DBpedia triple stores then allow anyone to solve sophisticated queries against Wikipedia extracted data, and to link the different data sets on these data. The French chapter of DBpedia was created and deployed by Wimmics and is now an online running platform providing data to several projects such as: QAKIS, Izipedia, zone47, Sépage, HdA Lab., JocondeLab, etc.

Release Functional Description: The new release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps and the inclusion of the DBpedia history extraction of the pages.

• Participants: Fabien Gandon and Elmahdi Korfed

• Contact: Fabien Gandon

• URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/