Hi all, I'm said author of dbpedia lookup, and would like to just jump in to clarify things a bit.
Firstly, dbpedia lookup has not been replaced by uberblic search. I'm not actively developing the dbpedia lookup anymore and am not in charge of the hosting, but the DBpedia team was still hosting and maintaining the service after my departure as lead developer of DBpedia last year. Uberblic is my new service, and its search API is much more powerful than dbpedia lookup ever was (it's kind of the successor project for me). You get live Wikipedia data via Uberblic, you can use a richer (but still very easy) query language, and results include links to equivalent entities in other web data APIs as well. See [1] for a discussion around the topic of label matching in dbpedia. But I didn't shut down or replace lookup.dbpedia.org. I'll have to leave it to the DBpedia team to comment on the issue of downtime as they know better than me what's going on. Cheers, Georgi [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=005d01cb963c$72406c a0$56c145e0$%40gmx.de&forum_name=dbpedia-discussion -- Georgi Kobilarov Uberblic Labs http://uberblic.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Matteo Moci [mailto:mox...@libero.it] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:34 AM > To: dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: stephen.be...@bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] lookup.dbpedia.org down? > > Hello everyone, > I stumbled in this issue too and I found this tweet [1] by the dbpedia > lookup author: > apparently it has been replaced by the uberblic search API at [2]. > > Hope that helps. > > Matteo > > > [1] http://twitter.com/#!/gkob/status/24430130390630400 > [2] http://uberblic.org/developers/apis/search/ > > > Il 10/01/11 15:11, Stephen Betts ha scritto: > > Hello, > > > > We've been using the Look-up service at lookup.dbpedia.org for a > while, and > > just seen that it seems to be down at the moment. > > > > Does anyone know whether this is temporary or a permanent outage? > > (Apologies if this was mentioned on-list before and I missed it). > > > > Thanks very much, > > > > Stephen. > > > > > > Matteo Moci > Cybion Srl > http://twitter.com/matteomoci > http://matteomoci.wordpress.com > http://about.me/matteomoci/bio > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any > company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn > how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information > secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
