I'd say that things are represented well in Dbpedia when the things are objects that have well defined properties.
For instance, if I show up at the courthouse with a birth certificate that documents my date and place of birth and my parents, that proves that I'm a particular Person. Someday I'll have a death certificate with a date, place and cause of death and in between there may be records about jobs I held, things I wrote, performances I was in and so forth. People who make their mark with creative activities, for instance, I think DBpedia well represents the creative output of somebody like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Speilberg On the other hand if somebody is a cop/bureaucrat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover it is harder to document their career. For instance, it wouldn't be so clear that his influence was orders of magnitude greater than any of these people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation I suppose you could add properties for "?s arrested ?o ." and "?s did surveillance on ?o ." and "?s intimidated ?o ." but that is not there now. You can also do a good job with chemicals, automobiles, airplane models and things like that. On the other hand, consider topics like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_arranging Even though these are all activities that people do, they don't have common properties in infoboxes. I guess they could, because people spend a certain amount of money on these things a year, a certain number of people are interested, all three of them are things people can do as a hobby but you can't (by law) make money doing amateur radio (unless you're a teacher helping a class talk to astronauts on the ISS or that you can occasionally sell used gear on a swap net.) -----Original Message----- From: Yury Katkov Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 11:38 AM To: dbpedia-discussion Subject: [Dbpedia-discussion] what areas of knowledge has the best qualityand coverage in dbpedia? Hi everyone! What topics/categories have the best quality of the data? What topics are covered better than other? Are there any analysis about that or maybe your personal feelings? ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
