Publications

This section collects blog posts about DBpedia, publications about the project and related websites.

Publications about DBpedia

• Christian Bizer, Jens Lehmann, Georgi Kobilarov, Sören Auer, Christian Becker, Richard Cyganiak, Sebastian Hellmann: DBpedia – A Crystallization Point for the Web of Data. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, Issue 7, Pages 154–165, 2009.
• Georgi Kobilarov, Tom Scott, Yves Raimond, Silver Oliver, Chris Sizemore, Michael Smethurst, Christian Bizer, Robert Lee: Media Meets Semantic Web – How the BBC Uses DBpedia and Linked Data to Make Connections. European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Crete, June 2009.
• Christian Becker, Christian Bizer: Exploring the Geospacial Semantic Web with DBpedia Mobile. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web (in press), 2009.
• Christian Becker: DBpedia – Extracting structured data from Wikipedia. Presentation at Wikimania 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, August 2009.
• Christian Becker, Chrisitan Bizer: DBpedia Mobile – A Location-Aware Semantic Web Client (Slides). Semantic Web Challenge at ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2008.
• Jim Giles: Birth pangs for the 'semantic web', New Scientist, Issue 2658, 31 May 2008 (full text via TMCnet).
• Garcia, A., Szomszor, M., Alani, H. and Corcho, O. (2009) Preliminary Results in Tag Disambiguation using DBpedia. In: Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'09) – First International Workshop on Collective Knowledge Capturing and Representation – CKCaR'09, Redondo Beach, California, USA.
• Christian Becker, Christian Bizer: DBpedia Mobile: A Location-Enabled Linked Data Browser. 1st International Workshop about Linked Data on the Web, LDOW2008, Beijing, China, April, 2008.
• Auer, S.; Bizer, C.; Lehmann, J.; Kobilarov, G.; Cyganiak, R.; Ives, Z.: DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data. In Aberer et al. (Eds.): The Semantic Web, 6th International Semantic Web Conference, 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007, Busan, Korea, November 11–15, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4825 Springer 2007, ISBN 978–3-540–76297–3.
• Lehmann, J.; Schüppel, J.; Auer, S.: Discovering Unknown Connections – the DBpedia Relationship Finder. In Proceedings of 1st Conference on Social Semantic Web, CSSW2007, Leipzig, September 24–28, 2007. Volume P-113 of GI-Edition – Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). Bonner Köllen Verlag, ISSN 1617–5468, ISBN 978–3-88579–207-9.
• Georgi Kobilarov, Piet Hensel, Richard Cyganiak, Christian Bizer: DBpedia — A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data. Poster presentation at CSSW07. Poster (PDF), slides (PDF).
• Christian Bizer et al.: DBpedia – Querying Wikipedia like a Database. Developers track presentation at WWW2007.
• Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann: What have Innsbruck and Leipzig in common? Extracting Semantics from Wiki Content. In Franconi et al. (eds), Proceedings of European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’07), LNCS 4519, pp. 503–517, Springer, 2007.

Blog Posts and Talks about DBpedia

• 2009–02–04: Tim Berners-Lee (MIT/W3C) speaks at TED2009 about Linked Data and DBpedia.
• 2008–04–23: Georgi Kobilarov (FU Berlin) speaks at WWW2009 about DBpedia as interlinking hub.
• 2008–03–28: Tim Berners-Lee (MIT/W3C): Semantic Web in the news
• 2007–09–08: Nova Spivack (Radar Networks): DBpedia.org is Among the Coolest Semantic Web Datasets I've Seen
• 2007–08–09: John Musser (Programmableweb): Using Wikipedia as a Web Database
• 2007–07–29: Ivan Herman (W3C): From Wikipedia URI-s to DBpedia URI…
• 2007–04–03: Michael K. Bergman (AI³): Did You Blink? The Structured Web Just Arrived
• 2007–03–12: Tim O' Reilly (O' Reilly Media): Different Approaches to the Semantic Web
• 2007–03–09: You Mon Tsang (Venture Beat): Are you powered by Wikipedia yet?
• 2007–01–26: Niklas (Dust Feed): A Great Day for Specificity
• 2007–01–24: Ivan Herman (W3C): Integrating Wikipedia and SW
• 2007–01–23: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons): Querying Wikipedia like a Database

Other Wikipedia related Publications

• Fei Wu, Daniel Weld: Automatically Refining the Wikipedia Infobox Ontology. In 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 2008.
• Fei Wu, Daniel Weld: Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia. In 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-07), November, 2007
• Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci, Gerhard Weikum: Yago: A Core of Semantic Knowledge – Unifying WordNet and Wikipedia. Paper at WWW2007.
• Hepp, Martin; Siorpaes, Katharina; Bachlechner, Daniel: Harvesting Wiki Consensus: Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary for Knowledge Management, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 54–65, Sept-Oct 2007.
• Jonathan Isbell, Mark Butler: Extracting and Re-using Structured Data from Wikis. HP Labs Technical Report, 2007.
• Michael Bergman: 99 Wikipedia Sources Aiding the Semantic Web. List of publications about mining structured data from Wikipedia, February 2008.
• Hugo Zaragoza et al: Ranking very many typed entities on wikipedia, ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management .

Related Webpages

• DBpedia project page on Sourceforge
• WikiStory: Drawing Timelines from Wikipedia & DBpedia
• Semantic MediaWiki
• Stanford Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration
• W3C SWEO Community Project: Linking Open Data on the Web
• Freebase (Tim O'Reilly post with a preview of Freebase)
• Powerset
• The Intelligence in Wikipedia Project
• Metaweb: Mining knowledge from Wikipedia: Announcing WEX
• Yahoo Research: Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia