DBpedia talk at Fjord Berlin

Georgi Kobilarov, Chris Bizer, Sören Auer, Jens Jehmann

Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Leipzig

Hello

Georgi Kobilarov

Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin

DBpedia Project Development Lead

Semantic Web Consultant

Past: Reseacher at Hewlett-Packard Labs

Semantic Web

“My document can point at your document on the Web, but my database can't point at something in your database without writing special purpose code. The Semantic Web aims at fixing that.”

Prof. James Hendler

Semantic Web

Semantic Web Semantic Web Reasoning Data Integration

Linked Data

Use URIs as names for things

Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.

When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.

Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

Use Case: BBC Data Integration

Linking Open Data Project

Linking Open Data Project

Linking Open Data Project

„most potentially world-changing“

„the Semantic Web done right, and the Web done right“

Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide

Web

DBpedia

Making Wikipedia knowledge queryable

Providing a Linked Data vocabulary

Title

Description

Languages

Web Links

Categorization

Domain specificData

Images

Infoboxes

Infobox Extraction

dbpedia:BBC p:network_name„British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)“

dbpedia:BBC p:country dbpedia:United_Kingdom

dbpedia:BBC p:key_people dbpedia:Michael_Lyons dbpedia:Mark_Thompson

DBpedia extraction results

200k people (70k athletes, 65k artists, 18k office holders)193k places (100k areas, 40k cities, 10k rivers)187k works (71k music albums, 24k singles, 31k films, 15k books,

10k Television Shows, 5k Television Episodes)87k species70k organisations (20k educational institutions, 18k companies, 12k radio

stations)22k buildings (8k airports, 5k stations, 2k stadiums, 1k bridges)12k planets

And more… (events, diseases, proteins, drugs, aircrafts, automobiles, ships, astronaut, architect, scientists)

Template Mapping

Class TV Episode (Work)

Wikipedia Templates:Television EpisodeUK Office EpisodeSimpsons Episode

DoctorWhoBox

DBpedia Mobile• Geospatial entry point

into the Web of Data• Starts with DBpedia,

Revyu and Flickr data

Linked Data URIs

Wikipedia Article URI:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

DBpedia Resource URIhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/BBC

Use Case: BBC Data Integration

It‘s all about linking data.

With thanks to:

Chris SizemoreSilver OliverMichael Smethurst

http://dbpedia.org

Georgi KobilarovFreie Universität Berlin