Dear DBpedians, We will take an ontology and mappings snapshot for the next release on Monday 2/11
This means that you have 5 more days left to improve the next release. Happy up !!! Best, Dimitris On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Markus Freudenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear DBpedians, > > Shortly after the 2015-04 release we started working on the new 2015-10 to > keep up with our two releases per year schedule. We hope to be able to > publish the new release at the end of November. > > As a lot of new languages and infobox-to-ontology mappings for various > languages have already been entered by the mapping editors community into > the DBpedia Mapping Wiki (http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ > <http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page>) since the last DBpedia > release, we hope to be able to provide clean data for even more infoboxes > in even more languages with the new release. > > With this email, we would also like to ask all members of the mapping > editors community for their help with the upcoming DBpedia release in the > form of a *MappingSprint*: > > 1. Could you please check whether the mappings that you have entered into > the wiki over the last year still work correctly? > > 2. If you still want to refine and extend mappings and/or the ontology, > now would be the perfect time to do so. > > 3. In order to help increasing the infobox coverage of the new release, it > would also be great if you map additional templates or additional > properties of existing templates to the ontology. > > Also note that now we have separate issue trackers for the mappings and > the ontology where we discuss design issues > > https://github.com/dbpedia/ontology-tracker/issues > > https://github.com/dbpedia/mappings-tracker/issues > > For helping you see which widely used templates still require additional > property mappings, we have updated the Mapping Wiki statistics for all > languages: > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/ > > Further functionality for testing and exploring the current mappings is > available at: > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/ > > for example mapping syntax errors > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/mappings/fr/validate/* > > *New additions since the last sprint* > > Redirects that need to be fixed (moved / merged) > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/mappings/en/redirects/ > > Wrong mappings (according to our ontology). > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/validation/ > > Wikidata mappings (create owl:equivalent classes & properties to Wikidata) > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/ontology/wikidata/missing/ > > *Examples* > > For the English Wikipedia edition, you can see for instance at > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/en/?show=100 > > that there is still room for improving the mappings. > > The statistics for German, Spanish and French are found below and also > still show lots of gaps for these important languages: > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/de/?show=100 > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/es/?show=100 > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/fr/?show=100 > > You also have a possibility to see the list of errors for the current > mappings, for instance for French you can validate either a specific > mapping or all mappings at once > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/mappings/fr/ > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/mappings/fr/validate/* - error list > for all French mappings > > If you want to to refine and extend the ontology, note that you can add > links between the DBpedia ontology and other schemata/ontologies, e.g. to > schema.org or Wikidata as in the example below > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/OntologyProperty:Author > > Wikipedia infobox templates evolve over time and some of our mappings need > to catch up as well. Some cases are simple where a simple move would do > (double check the new mapToClass) while others require merging (we have a > mapping both for the redirect and the target) > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/mappings/en/redirects/ > > Invalid mappings report the use of properties in a mapping that does not > comply with the property domain definition. In these case we could a) > change the property and find a more appropriate one, b) broaden the domain > of the property or c) adjust the class hierarchy (BE Carefull with this > one!!!) > > http://mappings.dbpedia.org/validation/ > > *Deadline* > > We will use all mappings that are entered into the Mapping Wiki until *Oct > 31st* for the upcoming DBpedia release. > > It would thus be great if as many editors as possible participate in the > mapping sprint and we as a community try to increase the mapping coverage > as far as possible until this date. > > Lots of thanks advance to all mapping editors who participate. Let's all > try to make the next DBpedia release even better! > > Best wishes, > > Markus Freudenberg, Dimitris Kontokostas, Sebastian Hellmann > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion > > -- Kontokostas Dimitris
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