Release of the DBpedia Relationship Finder. The relationship finder explores the DBpedia dataset two find out which relations exist between two things. It can answer questions like “How are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?“.

Via Binary Relations Blog: If you are in the general vicinity of Copenhagen on the evening of the 24th of April (yep, that’s tomorrow), and remotely interested in RDF, SPARQL or DBpedia, stop by ITU, where we’ll be hacking away from 20:00.

If you read Danish, see the original announcement by Claus Dahl in the kitchen: DBPedia hack-aften?

The dbpedia project started by AKSW (together with Chris Bizer from FU Berlin and OpenLink Software) is getting increasingly popular. No wonder, since the over 10 Mio. RDF triples extracted from the English Wikipedia allow the astonishing answering of previously hard-to-answer questions. Who for example knows what connects Leipzig with Innsbruck?

Interesting articles about dbpedia:
Did You Blink? The Structured Web Just Arrived - Michael K. Bergman (AI³)
Different Approaches to the Semantic Web - Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media)
Integrating Wikipedia and SW - Ivan Herman (W3C)
Querying Wikipedia like a Database - Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
Interview with Sören Auer (Semantic Web School)

The query browser and builder interface for our Wikipedia extraction is (re-)launched. You can build your own queries on the semantic database containing over 10 million facts extracted from the English Wikipedia at: http://wikipedia.aksw.org.