Dear Alex, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Great to see some of the updates made to DBpedia 3.2. It still however > strikes me that there is no data available for any of the Navbox > templates found at the bottom of many Wikipedia articles (for example, > the “The Lord of the Rings” and “Berlin” sample resources). To me at > least this sort of information would be hugely useful to have in RDF > form. Perhaps you have simply not gotten around to implementing this > feature yet, or is there a specific reason why Navbox data is ignored?
To give you a very late reply: We simply did not get around to implementing this. I agree that the Navbox template contains a lot of information. I am unsure whether the standard infobox extraction would produce useful results there. It's also interesting to note that some of the navbox subjects seem to be useful class candidates (often with a complete enumeration of all their instances), which could be connected to the DBpedia schema. However, this isn't always the case. Kind regards, Jens PS: In case you are strongly interested in getting this information in DBpedia, I could give you some advice on how to write a DBpedia extractor (which is not too hard). -- Dipl. Inf. Jens Lehmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Homepage: http://www.jens-lehmann.org GPG Key: http://jens-lehmann.org/jens_lehmann.asc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
