On 1/12/11 12:39 PM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
Dear all,
DBpedia has become quite a famous project, but there is one thing that
is still missing.
The Time's Person of the Year 2006: *You*
DBpedia has limitless use cases and possibilities for extension:
- more languages, more wikis (Wikibooks, Wiktionary), more ontologies,
more & better data !
In the last years, it was always my impression that the DBpedia team,
although we really worked hard and tried our best, limited, in a way,
the advance and improvement of the project. So now in 2011 we will of
course continue doing, what we are already doing, but in addition we
will hand over some possibilities and access to the DBpedia Community.
Some things that already happened:
- There is a Wiki for editing the mappings: http://mappings.dbpedia.org
- You can register at the main DBpedia page http://dbpedia.org and
update pages such as http://wiki.dbpedia.org/OnlineAccess
- A DBpedia Internationalization Committee was founded:
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Internationalization
Now we will soon go one step further:
1. A new mailing list has been created[1] called dbpedia-developers
(it is public now).
It is for those of you that really want to or ALREADY work on the
scala framework to discuss code and other things.
This will go along with the addition of more developers from the
community to the Sourceforge project.
For this reason we will switch to Mercurial [2] soon (around January
17th) and then give access to new developers.
Mercurial is a distributed system and it is much easier to handle
branches. Developers can test new extractors and new features in a
branch and once it is stable we will merge it into the trunk.
2. We integrated Stack and Semantic Overflow on the site to help
people get help: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/GetHelp
A lot of community members were using it already.
3. There are two more pages I'd like to mention:
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Development and the Internationalization
Committee: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Internationalization
4. There is a mailing list for the Wiktionary conversion; the dump
will come out some time this year, I guess:
The question we still have is:
What other infrastructure shall we - the maintainers - provide for the
community, so the project can blossom:
Now we have 2 Wikis, 2 Mailing lists, 2 StackOverflows and soon 1
Mercurial Repository the community can access
Anything else?
Sebastian Hellmann
On behalf of the DBpedia Team
[1] https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=190976
[2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/
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Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Homepage:http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
Research Group:http://aksw.org
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Sebastian,
In addition to the above, the different parts of the project need to be
clearer to the current and future community members. For instance, we
have the following areas:
1. Extraction & Mapping -- the items above address this aspect primarily
2. Database Instances (English and other Language versions) - also
covers Live (still in beta) and Static (current front which should be
static for a short period of time (re. 3.6 release) before going dynamic
3. Curation -- this is where Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) come into
play re. fixing bugs in the graph (actual Relations in main graph; stuff
not achievable via #1).
Happy New Year!
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