Flikr photo collection links added to DBpedia

Christian Becker (Freie Universität Berlin) has implemented a wrapper around flikr which generates photo collections depicting DBpedia concepts. See flikr wrappr for details. We have interlinked all DBpedia concepts with the corresponding photo collections. You can now use any Semantic Web browser to navigate from a DBpedia concept to flikr photos depicting it by following the dbpedia:hasPictureCollection property. This means an additional 30-50 million photos are accessible through DBpedia.

Improving Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the by far largest publicly available encyclopedia on the Web. Wikipedia editions are available in over 250 languages with the English one accounting for more than 1.95 million articles. Wikipedia has the problem that its search capabilities are limited to full-text search, which only allows very limited access to this valuable knowledge-base.

Sematic Web

Semantic Web technologies enable expressive queries against structured information on the Web and to interlink data between different Web data sources. The Semantic Web has the problem that there is not much RDF data online yet and that up-to-date terms and ontologies are missing for many application domains.

DBpedia

The DBpedia project approaches both problems by extracting structured information from Wikipedia and by making this information available on the Semantic Web.

The DBpedia dataset currently provides information about more than 1.95 million “things”, including at least 80,000 persons, 70,000 places, 35,000 music albums, 12,000 films. Altogether, the DBpedia dataset consists of 103 million pieces of information (RDF triples).

Source: DBpedia