Hi Ilario,
yes, this can easily be done as the dataset contains German, Italian and French short and long abstracts as well as links to the original Wikipedia pages in these languages.
The DBpedia data is accassible through a SPARQL query endpoint at http://DBpedia.org/sparql
You can for instance ask queries like:
SELECT ?name ?description_en ?description_de ?musician WHERE { ?musician skos:subject http://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:German_musicians . ?musician foaf:name ?name . OPTIONAL { ?musician rdfs:comment ?description_de . FILTER (LANG(?description_en) = 'de') . } OPTIONAL { ?musician rdfs:comment ?description_fr . FILTER (LANG(?description_de) = 'fr') . } }
to get the German and French abstract for German musicians.
To test this query with the SNORQL query builder, click on:
http://dbpedia.org/snorql/?query=SELECT+%3Fname+%3Fdescription_en+%3Fdescrip...
As the query endpoint is sometimes slow, you can also get all data from our download page and filter the German, French and Italien information out and store it locally.
Please refer to:
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess for information about accessing the dataset via the SPARQL endpoint. http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads for downloading the dumps.
You find information about the SPARQL query language here: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/ and information about toolkits to store and process the dumps here: http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/toolkits/index.htm
Please feel free to contact me or the dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list with any further question about how to use the dataset.
Cheers
Chris
-- Chris Bizer Freie Universität Berlin +49 30 838 54057 chris@bizer.de www.bizer.de ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilario Valdelli" valdelli@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] DBpedia - Querying Wikipedia like a Database:Improved dataset released.
This project is very, very interesting for a content syndacation, but I would have some documentation also for me.
As Wikimedia Ch board member we have registered www.wikipedia.ch but we have not content on it.
I thought to include some content concerning the Swiss in three languages on the same page. Using Mediawiki it's very difficult to made.
You understand that if I have the database I can proceed to include the content in any page without mediawiki.
Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH board member
On 9/5/07, Chris Bizer chris@bizer.de wrote:
Hi all,
after quite some work into improving the DBpedia information extraction framework, we have released a new version of the DBpedia dataset today.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
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