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Although not itself a [[wiki]], '''DBpedia''' is significant in the [[Wikisphere|wiki world]]. Founded in {{tag|Founded in 2007|2007}} in {{tag|Leipzig}}, [[:Category:Germany|Germany]], [https://www.DBpedia.org DBpedia] extracts structured information from [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] via a crowd-sourced community effort, and then makes this {{tag|information}} available all on the {{tag|internet}}. | Although not itself a [[wiki]], '''DBpedia''' is significant in the [[Wikisphere|wiki world]]. Founded in {{tag|Founded in 2007|2007}} in {{tag|Leipzig}}, [[:Category:Germany|Germany]], [https://www.DBpedia.org DBpedia] extracts structured information from [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] via a crowd-sourced community effort, and then makes this {{tag|information}} available all on the {{tag|internet}}. | ||
{{tag|Data}} from DBpedia can be used in many ways, and is ideally suited to mobile applications and mobile devices, such as the modern generation [[:Category:GPS|GPS]]-equipped {{tag|smartphone}}s. One example is the [[:Category:Android|Android]] mobile app ''University Finder''; this app extracts data from the [[Italian Wikipedia]], and presents it ordered by [[user]]-selectable groups such as '[[:Category:City|city]]' and '[[:Category:Region|region]]', and compares a plethora of information on [[:Category:Universities|universities]] in [[:Category:Italy|Italy]], complete with [[:Category:Google Maps|Google Maps]] push-pin data. | {{tag|Data}} from DBpedia can be used in many ways, and is ideally suited to mobile applications and mobile devices, such as the modern generation [[:Category:GPS|GPS]]-equipped {{tag|smartphone}}s. One example is the [[:Category:Android|Android]] mobile app ''University Finder''; this app extracts data from the [[Italian Wikipedia]], and presents it ordered by [[user]]-selectable groups such as '[[:Category:City|city]]' and '[[:Category:Region|region]]', and compares a plethora of information on [[:Category:Universities|universities]] in [[:Category:Italy|Italy]], complete with [[:Category:Google Maps|Google Maps]] push-pin data. | ||
DBpedia fundamentally works on a 'dataset', and this can probably best be visualised as the structured data found in the many types of 'infoboxes' as found on the many different Wikipedias. DBpedia states that the dataset from the [[English Wikipedia]] consists of "3.77 million 'things' with 400 million 'facts'". The data is also available as 'localised' versions in over 110 [[:Category:Wiki | DBpedia fundamentally works on a 'dataset', and this can probably best be visualised as the structured data found in the many types of 'infoboxes' as found on the many different Wikipedias. DBpedia states that the dataset from the [[English Wikipedia]] consists of "3.77 million 'things' with 400 million 'facts'". The data is also available as 'localised' versions in over 110 [[:Category:Wiki language|languages]], which together describe 20.8 million things. | ||
Data is publicly accessible by all, and can be made available in either {{tag|comma-separated value}} (CSV) or {{tag|Resource Description Framework}} (RDF).[https://wiki.DBpedia.org/OnlineAccess] | Data is publicly accessible by all, and can be made available in either {{tag|comma-separated value}} (CSV) or {{tag|Resource Description Framework}} (RDF).[https://wiki.DBpedia.org/OnlineAccess] | ||
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Because DBpedia gets its data from from [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], under its {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution | Because DBpedia gets its data from from [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], under its {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license}} (CC-BY-SA 3.0) and {{tag|Wiki GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License}} (GFDL), it in turn releases its own content under those same [[:Category:Wiki license|licences]]. DBpedia does point out the importance of correct [[attribution]] when its data is re-used by others. DBpedia also {{tag|Open content|publishes}} its data in compliance with the [https://OpenDefinition.org Open Definition] principles. | ||
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*{{Wp|DBpedia}} — at [[English Wikipedia]] | *{{Wp|DBpedia}} — at [[English Wikipedia]] | ||
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[[Category:Semantic Web]] | [[Category:Semantic Web]] | ||