Community

DBpedia is an open community project and highly values new contributors. The DBpedia community collaborates using the following tools:

Mailing Lists

We are very interested in hearing your opinion about DBpedia and getting ideas for further improvements.

Please send feedback and ideas to the DBpedia-discussion mailing list. This mailing list is the main forum for DBpedia related discussions.

If you just want to stay up-to-date about what is happening around DBpedia, you can subscribe to our low-traffic DBpedia-announcements mailing list.

Quality Assurance and Bug Tracking

In order to improve the DBpedia data quality we need your feedback.

What problems occurred to you when loading the data sets? What kind of wrong extractions did you see in the data? Are there any undetected units, currencies, etc? Where did problems occur with list parsing?

We try to extensively analyze the data sets, but also rely on the support of users and the community to establish a better extract-release cycle for the DBpedia data sets.

Before you report a bug, please use the DBpedia Live Debug Interface to check if your bug still occurs with the current DBpedia extraction code.

Please submit all known problems to the DBpedia bugtracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=190976

Please include:

• the data set in which you found the problem
• the triples concerned
• a description of the problem and 
• how it should look (from your point of view)

We will try to come up with a solution, fix the extraction algorithms, and publish improved data sets as soon as possible.

One useful tool for stress-testing the extraction process is the Random DBPedia Page.

Blog

We also discuss the project on our Blog.

Facebook Group

There exists a Facebook group devoted to DBpedia.

DBpedia Consulting

Occasionally we receive requests for commercial support and consulting regarding DBpedia data sets, DBpedia applications, and the Semantic Web in general. Please contact Sören Auer and Chris Bizer regarding consulting inquiries.