Credits

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

The project was started in 2007 by the following organizations and individuals:

Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig
Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
Richard Cyganiak, DERI Galway (then at Freie Universität Berlin)
Orri Erling, OpenLink Software
Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink Software
Georgi Kobilarov, Freie Universität Berlin
Jens Lehmann, Universität Leipzig
Jörg Schüppel, Universität Leipzig

Subsequent contributors of organization and maintenance have included:

Sebastian Hellmann, Universität Leipzig
Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin
Paul Kreis, Freie Universität Berlin
Christopher Sahnwaldt, neofonie (in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin)
Claus Stadler, Universität Leipzig
Robert Isele

Thanks to the Wikipedia Community

DBpedia is essentially a data-oriented interface to the work of the Wikipedia community, and wouldn't exist without the massive contributions made by editors and authors at Wikipedia, or without the developers who built the underlying infrastructure that supports Wikipedia. DBpedia is intended to show how the information spread across many Wikipedia pages can be combined into a single integrated database. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking and improving the encyclopaedia itself. DBpedia is our way of saying “thank you!” for Wikipedia...

Some Members of the DBpedia Team

Some members of the DBpedia Team at a meeting in Leipzig (December 2009). From left to right:
Sören Auer, Sebastian Hellmann, Chris Bizer, Christopher Sahnwaldt, Jens Lehmann, Robert Isele, Claus Stadler