The Future of DBpedia

Under discussion

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^{Sebastian Hellmann,}

^{AKSW Group, Leipzig University�DBpedia Association}

DBpedia

What is it?

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DBpedia

What is it?

• Data
• Tools
• Ontologies/Mappings

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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

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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)

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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?

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DBpedia Association

http://dbpedia.org/association

dbpedia@infai.org

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