About DBpedia

DBpedia was established around producing a queryable knowledge graph derived from Wikipedia content that’s able to answer questions like “What have Innsbruck and Leipzig in common? (Auer et al. 2007)” A community and consumer network quickly formed around this highly useful data, resulting in a large, well-structured, open knowledge graph that seeded the Linked Open Data Cloud – which is the largest knowledge graph on earth. Further reading can be found here:

• DBpedia About
• Learn about DBpedia

About the DBpedia Development Wiki

Since DBpedia’s establishment in 2006, the DBpedia project, published several Terabytes of useful data. DBpedia is an open community project with contributions and extensions from thousands of developers, engineers, companies and scientists, which can proudly call themselves DBpedians for building a great, freely available knowledge graph of steadily improving quality.
This wiki serves as the central point for the community to document and coordinate development on the DBpedia Databus, DBpedia’s data and its applications and services.

• We follow “working software over comprehensive documentation”
• code snippets and links are welcome
• See the Improve DBpedia section
• Ideas to improve DBpedia can also be posted in the forum

The wiki is reserved for technical things. Other places with useful information (not duplicated here) are

• the DBpedia forum for discussion (a good place to copy documentation)
• DBpedia Slack, sign up for chatting/
• the main website dbpedia.org as an entry point for overall presentation and first time users.
• Documentation of the data itself is kept in the Databus Artifacts and Versions.

License

All transcluded pages are informative only. We cache them from other locations on the web. Please attribute to the orignal place as mentioned in the header. Content and code in https://github.com/dbpedia/dev.dbpedia.org is CC-BY, please attribute.

Editing this wiki

In order not to duplicate content in the many community projects, we are transcluding markdown files from the web (mostly GitHub).

• transclusion runs every 5 minutes.
• on top of each page, you can find a markdown link where to edit.
• Some of the markdown files like this about page are in https://github.com/dbpedia/dev.dbpedia.org/tree/master/markdown others are in the respective projects.
• In readme-list.csv the order of (sub-)sections is defined.
• Markdown lnks can be relative to dev.dbpedia.org [Improve DBpedia](Improve_DBpedia) for transcluded pages from https://github.com/dbpedia/dev.dbpedia.org
• Issues go in this issue tracker.