[Wikipedia-l] dbpedia.org - community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia

[Oldak Quill]

A link to this project was posted on the Semantic MediaWiki developers
mailing list.

In the project's own words: "The dbpedia.org project approaches both
problems by extracting structured information from Wikipedia and by
making this information available on the Semantic Web. dbpedia.org
allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link
other datasets on the Web to dbpedia data. "

The website has a demonstration of the kind of semantic information
that can be extracted from the main infobox on English Wikipedia's
Innsbruck article.

"The dbpedia dataset currently consists of around 25 million RDF
triples, which have been extracted from the English, German, French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Dutch and Japanese
version of Wikipedia."

An example of reuse of Wikipedia data in a very useful way.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)