Wikidata through the eyes of DBpedia

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ismayilov, Ali^{a; b; *} | Kontokostas, Dimitris^c | Auer, Sören^{a; b} | Lehmann, Jens^{a; b} | Hellmann, Sebastian^c

Affiliations: [a] University of Bonn, Römerstraße 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] | [b] Fraunhofer IAIS, Römerstraße 164, D-53117 Bonn, Germany | [c] AKSW, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10, D-04009 Leipzig, Germany. E-mails: [email protected], [email protected]

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: DBpedia is one of the earliest and most prominent nodes of the Linked Open Data cloud. DBpedia extracts and provides structured data for various crowd-maintained information sources such as over 100 Wikipedia language editions as well as Wikimedia Commons by employing a mature ontology and a stable and thorough Linked Data publishing lifecycle. Wikidata, on the other hand, has recently emerged as a user curated source for structured information which is included in Wikipedia. In this paper, we present how Wikidata is incorporated in the DBpedia eco-system. Enriching DBpedia with structured information from Wikidata provides added value for a number of usage scenarios. We outline those scenarios and describe the structure and conversion process of the DBpediaWikidata (DBw) dataset.

Keywords: DBpedia, Wikidata, RDF

DOI: 10.3233/SW-170277

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 493-503, 2018