Dear all,
after a long time of refactoring, we are about to start releasing
DBpedia again along with a new mission and identity.
The release notes are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hv3HCTumKxbaMQe936TyjwAl5_1v6BjYng-N5W3CfLU/edit#heading=h.5lq4jv39ugnh
(note that we are waiting for the board to give final approval here, but it should be published this week)
Now, before there are any misconceptions, we would like to get the Wikidata and DBpedia story a bit straighter:
1. DBpedia isn't really about the data. Data is produced and it
is useful, but the main point was always to push the way knowledge
extraction was done, how data is structured, how data is debugged,
how it is published, maintained, delivered, hosted like
http://fragments.dbpedia.org/ and customised. For example,
DBpedia's CTO Dimitris edited the SHACL
(https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/) standard for data constraints,
which is now supported by many triplestores and engines (not sure
about neptune or blazegraph, though).