Georgi Kobilarov

In early 2009 I had the idea for a linked data integration platform, capable of importing and mapping all of the publicly available data sets in the Linked Data cloud into a single repository, represented in a coherent ontology, reconciled and accessible through central APIs.

What started out as an idea a year ago now became reality. Today, we have released uberblic.org, a service for integrating the web of data.

The project announcement has a summary and screencast of what Uberblic is and how it works.

I’m very excited about today’s release! Many thanks to my friends at Talis for their help and support!

Many data sources on the web are licensed under non-commercial licenses. There are understandable reasons for data publishers to choose non-commercial licensing: Their data might have been funded with tax money, or they license the content from other content creators under contracts that only allow non-commercial republishing.
The intention is that the data should be [...]

One of the bigger changes of the upcoming DBpedia 3.4 release is the ontology’s new URI schema: Property URIs are now partitioned by the property’s domain. While before it was http://dbpedia.org/ontology/artitect, now it is http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Building/artitect. In the past, there’s been the statement that http://dbpedia.org/ontology/architect has the rdfs:domain http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Building, now this fact is in addition also [...]

Good news for the Linked Open Data community: Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced today at the International Semantic Web Conference in Washington their new service http://data.nytimes.com. Through that service, the NY Times is publishing their large annotation vocabulary which is used to tag all their articles as Linked Data, and those tags [...]

Usually I don’t publicly point my finger at the work of others that I think is wrong. Still, I believe it’s time for an analysis of the stuff that’s going on in the Linked Data world, and that will include pointing out what I believe is wrong with some of the work that’s been invested [...]

It’s sad when a server goes down, and it’s stupid to not have a backup of your blog running on that server. But luckily, my Google Reader cache at least contained my few blog post, which I could restore that way. Still sadly, all comments are gone.
But anyway, it gave me a little boost to [...]

In a very interesting article, the German news site spiegel.de analyses the recently launched Wolfram Alpha. Their analysis hits the bull’s-eye: the Wolfram team will never be able to curate all the information needed to make W|A really useful. Especially compared to Wikipedia, which is maintained by such a large community.
Linked Data is the model [...]

The Linked Data Web is about reusing and linking URIs. With DBpedia, we provide URIs for a broad range of topics: People, organizations, countries, cities, rivers, mountains, music albums, films, books, buildings, etc. 2.6 million URIs overall.
But it didn’t used to be easy enough to find a DBpedia URI for a given keyword. DBpedia Lookup [...]

Reuters just announced that they’re going to fully support Linked Data with the upcoming release of OpenCalais 4.0. And that they’ll join the cloud by linking to DBpedia. Finally.
Anybody still doubting that Linked Data is ready for prime time?

A week ago, Freebase announced that its rich dataset is now available as Linked Data. Congratulations, Metaweb! So it is finally the time to welcome Freebase to the Linked Data Cloud.
But wait, isn’t Linked Data about… linking data? Unfortunately, while Freebase now does export RDF, its concepts aren’t linked to other datasets in “the cloud“. [...]