Credits

DBpedia is an open community project and highly welcomes new contributors.

The project was started by the following organizations and individuals:

Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig
Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
Richard Cyganiak, Freie Universität Berlin
Orri Erling, OpenLink Software
Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink Software
Georgi Kobilarov, Freie Universität Berlin
Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig
Jörg Schüppel, Universität Leipzig

Thanks a lot for their excellent work on the September 2007 release of the DBpedia dataset to:

1. Georgi Kobilarov (Freie Universität Berlin) who redesigned and improved the extraction framework and implemented many of the interlinking algorithms.
2. Piet Hensel (Freie Universität Berlin) who improved the infobox extraction code, and wrote the unit test suite.
3. Richard Cyganiak (Freie Universität Berlin) for his advice on redesigning the architecture of the extraction framework and for helping to solve many annoying Unicode and URI problems.
4. Zdravko Tashev (OpenLink Software) for his patience in trying several times to import buggy versions of the dataset into Virtuoso.
5. OpenLink Software altogether for providing the Virtuoso database server that hosts the DBpedia SPARQL endpoint and RDF Data Set.
6. Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann and Jörg Schüppel (Universität Leipzig) for the original version of the infobox extraction code.
7. Tom Heath and Peter Coetzee (Open University) for the RDFS version of the YAGO class hirarchy.
8. Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci (Max-Plank-Institut Saarbrücken) for allowing us to integrate the YAGO classification.
9. Christian Becker (Freie Universität Berlin) for writing the geo-coordinates and the homepage extractors.
10. Hans Butschalowsky (Freie Universität Berlin) for the Wikipedia infobox template to Word Net mapping.
11. Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin) for coordinating the Berlin part of the work and annoying everybody with suggestions and bug reports.
12. Ivan Herman, Tim Berners-Lee, Rich Knopman and many others for their bug reports.
13. Vijay Alilaghatta for contributing the Wikipedia-Cyc links.