Dear all, I want to share the good news that Christopher Sahnwaldt is starting to work on the DBpedia Release 3.9.
As with the previous releases, it is planned that Christopher runs all extractors for all languages. The resulting dumps will be provided for download via the DBpedia download page (http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads38) and will be loaded into the public DBpedia SPARQL endpoint. We hope to be able to publish the new release end of July or early August. As a lot of additional infobox-to-ontology mappings for various languages have already been entered by the mapping editors community into the DBpedia Mapping Wiki (http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page) since the last DBpedia release, we hope to be able to provide clean data for even more infoboxes in even more languages with the new release. With this email, I would also like to ask all members of the mapping editors community for their help with the upcoming DBpedia 3.9 release in the form of a Mapping Spring: 1. Could you please check whether the mappings that you have entered into the wiki over the last year still work correctly? 2. If you still want to refine and extend mappings, now would be the perfect time to do so. 3. In order to help increasing the infobox coverage of the new release, it would also be great if you map additional templates or additional properties of existing templates to the ontology. For helping you see which widely used templates still require additional property mappings, Christopher has updated the Mapping Wiki statistics for all languages: http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/ For the English Wikipedia edition, we can see for instance at http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/en/?show=100 that we can still get much better with infoboxes like "Infobox ship characteristics" or "Infobox football club" or "Chembox" amongst a lot of others :-) The statistics for German, Spanish and French are found below and also still show lots of gaps for these important languages: http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/de/?show=100 http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/es/?show=100 http://mappings.dbpedia.org/server/statistics/fr/?show=100 Christopher will use all mappings that are entered into the Mapping Wiki until June 30th for the new release. It would thus be great if as many editors as possible participate in the mapping sprint and we as a community try to increase the mapping coverage as far as possible until this date. Lots of thanks already in advance to all mapping editors who participate. Let's try to make the DBpedia 3.9 Release even better than the 3.8 Release! Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list Dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
