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The Future of DBpedia

Under discussion

Sebastian Hellmann,

AKSW Group, Leipzig University�DBpedia Association

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DBpedia

What is it?

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DBpedia

What is it?

  • Data
  • Tools
  • Ontologies/Mappings

But this is spread among the community:

  • Wild growth
  • No central access point
  • Undefined Upstream process

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DBpedia Assocation

What is it?

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DBpedia Assocation

What is it?

  • http://dbpedia.org/association
  • Not-for-profit organisation
  • Founded in 2014

Goals

  • Support the community (similar to Wikimedia)
  • Increase value created by the community (consolidation)
  • Safe-guard openness of the Data

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DBpedia+ Data Stack

Proposal (Now is a good time for feedback)

  • Central repository (25TB - 250TB)
  • Bundle of DBpedia community achievements
    • Resources with non-Wikipedia origin
  • Frequent releases in April and October
  • Clear license and provenance
  • CC-0 > CC-BY > CC-BY-SA
    • No dual licensing, free commercial exploitation
  • However, no SLA hosting, yet
    • Everybody, free to offer this service

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DBpedia Association Work

Proposal (Now is a good time for feedback)

  • Working Group structure for community
    • Ontology, Interlinking, Data Quality, Coverage
    • Also domains, e.g. law, tourism
    • Chairs wanted!
  • Documented Upstream
  • Contact point for feedback on data
  • Funding Goal: 2 FTE positions
    • integration, coordination and administration work
    • occasionally babysit poor, but sexy data sources (OpenStreetMaps, WikiData)

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Cost of DBpedia+

  • DBpedia Users (free)

Cost is shared:

  • DBpedia Members and Competence Centers (aka the community contributing work effort)
  • DBpedia Supporters (aka voluntary monetary contribution by users)
  • Data Suppliers (professional data providers, monetary contribution)

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DBpedia Members

  • Based on contribution only
  • DBpedia Competence Centers
    • http://tinyurl.com/dbpediacenters
    • university, research groups, non-profit or companies
    • pledge a reliable contribution
    • Country-specific chapters
  • DBpedia Members
    • either employee of a Competence Center
    • or individual
  • Voting rights
  • Application handled by members

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DBpedia Supporters

Users that gain commercial value from DBpedia

  • Donations
    • suggested amount ?
  • Subscription model
    • ability to subscribe to DBpedia+ modules (e.g. core, language, ontology, etc..)
    • more convenient way to receive and integrate data
    • difficult to find the cut-off

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Data Suppliers

Professional Data Providers

  • pay for inclusion of data into the DBpedia+ Data Stack
  • leverage central services
    • Meta-Data checks
    • Data Validation
    • User Feedback
    • Ability to build a community around data
    • Find more users and inbound links
    • Disseminate data widely

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Thank you & Questions?

DBpedia Association

http://dbpedia.org/association

dbpedia@infai.org

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