Brian wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Christian Becker <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We are pleased to announce the release of the DBpedia Faceted > Browser [1] by Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt as well as the DBpedia > User Script [2] by Anja Jentzsch. > > The DBpedia Faceted Browser allows you to explore Wikipedia via a > faceted browsing interface. It supports keyword queries and offers > relevant facets to narrow down search results, based on the > DBpedia Ontology. In this manner, queries such as "recent films > about Buenos Aires" can be easily and intuitively posed against > DBpedia. > The DBpedia Faceted browser was developed in cooperation with the > search engine company Neofonie, which also kindly provided the > funding for this project. > > The DBpedia User Script is a Greasemonkey script that enhances > Wikipedia pages with a link to their corresponding DBpedia page > and can be used within Firefox, Safari and Opera with a suitable > Greasemonkey plugin. > > Cheers, > > Christian Becker > > [1] http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/browse/ > [2] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaUserScript > > > DBPedia is always so slow. I clicked a couple of links in this new > browser and the page I ended up at was just hanging. As we add more > data to the semantic web the number of links between resources is > going to scale exponentially. I wonder if that scaling is going to be > faster than the availability of cheaper, faster computers. It is a > deluge of data. Can DBPedia/semantic web be more than an academic idea? > > $ time wget http://dbpedia.org/page/Elwell_Stephen_Otis > --2009-09-22 11:30:28-- http://dbpedia.org/page/Elwell_Stephen_Otis > Resolving dbpedia.org... 63.119.36.61 > Connecting to dbpedia.org <http://dbpedia.org>|63.119.36.61|:80... > connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 33461 (33K) [text/html] > Saving to: `Elwell_Stephen_Otis' > > 100%[========================================================================================================================================================================================>] > > 33,461 142K/s in 0.2s > > 2009-09-22 11:32:01 (142 KB/s) - `Elwell_Stephen_Otis' saved [33461/33461] > > > real 1m33.418s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.004s
Remember, you can always do the following with the DBpedia data set: 1. Load into your own Data Center using an RDF DB of your choice 2. Instantiate an EC2 AMI using a setup of your choice and not share it with the rest of the world So DBpedia's relative viability is basically a function of how you seek to use it and in what setup :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
