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Am I misunderstanding something or are DBpedia and Wikidata essentially trying to do the same thing?
by danbruc 4y ago
Am I misunderstanding something or are DBpedia and Wikidata essentially trying to do the same thing?
- zozbot234 4y agoThey're not the same thing. DBPedia is trying to extract structured information from the existing versions of Wikipedia, which are segregated by language and licensed under CC-by-sa. Wikidata is a newer project focused on providing high-quality structured data from scratch (labeled in any natural language), with a CC-0 license that's as close as legally possible to releasing them into the public domain.
- macrolime 4y agoDBPedia is extracting data from infoboxes in Wikipedia, but increasingly Wikidata is the source of the data in the infoboxes.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoThey overlap. Wikidata uses generated URIs for entities, properties, etc. that are not human readable readable; they can be resolved by hovering the mouse cursor on the SPARQL endpoint web app or add a pattern to get the label for these URIs. Many of the Knowledge Graph people who I have worked with clearly prefer Wikidata but I am in the other camp: I find it so much easier using the human-readable meaningful URIs for entities, properties, etc. in DBPedia. Yesterday I wrote SPARQL queries for both DBPedia and Wikipedia.