Georgi Kobilarov

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 [...]

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 [...]

[This is an old post that got lost about my server crashed last year, but I found a copy and restore it here...]
Wikipedia consists mostly of unstructured information and free text, and those tiny bits of structure represented in templates are inaccessible unless we deploy a semantic markup extension to Wikipedia and start from scratch.
Wrong.
DBpedia [...]