On 8/23/13 9:53 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
Freebase and DBpedia started around the same time. DBpedia just had its coming out party at WWW 2007 in Banff.In a word, no. Google acquired Metaweb, the company that built Freebase, which forms the core of the Knowledge Graph in 2010. Metaweb was founded in 2005 (interesting Google search: "Metaweb founding") and started extracting information from Wikipedia into Freebase in 2006. https://www.freebase.com/m/0gw0?links&lang=en&historical=trueThe first DBpedia release was in 2007. Semantic information nets go back to the 60s. TBL coined the term "semantic web" in 2006.
FWIW -- the projects started around the same time. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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