On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Nuno Cardoso <[email protected]> wrote:

>  - The DBpedia ontology is really a great resource, but I find it a little
> unbalanced -- it could use more subclasses, some of them are really strange
> (for instance, why Women Tennis Association Tournament as the only subclass
> from Sports Events? Why does it need a subclass of its own? Shouldn't it
> also have other subclasses?) Are you planning on revising it? I have my own
> couple of suggestions to make...

The DBpedia ontology is based on Wikipedia infoboxes, so its coverage
mirrors those of the infoboxes. Which means it sometimes doesn't make
sense from a top-down perspective, but on the other hand it is
grounded in actual modeling of instances by the Wikipedia community,
which makes it far more useful than most other ontologies (IMO).

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