DBpedia

DBpedia (.org) is a community effort to enable moving Towards a Public Data Infrastructure for a Large, Multilingual, Semantic Knowledge Graph.

DBpedia started as an effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web.

The datasets made by DBpedia can be queried with w:SPARQL language if LinkedWiki extension is installed on a Mediawiki. This way lot of company information ( Founded in year, type of business entity etc. etc. ) can be fetched from datasets of infobox data on the 'pedia.

DBpedia datasets contain lots of useful information from Wikipedia infobox templates and categories and much more.

DBpedia datasets can be used in Consumium implementation wiki through the LinkedWiki extension

DBpedia dataset version 2016-10 was published in 2017.

DBpedia ontology classes useful for Consumerium:

• Company
• Non-ProfitOrganisation
• Food
  • Beverage

• MeanOfTransportation
  • Aircraft
  • Automobile
  • Locomotive
  • Ship

• Place
  • ArchitecturalStructure
    • Building
      • Hotel
      • Restaurant
      • ShoppingMall
    • Infrastructure
      • Airport
      • RouteOfTransportation
        • RailwayLine
        • Road
      • Station
        • RailwayStation

• PopulatedPlace
  • AdministrativeRegion
  • Continent
  • Country
  • Island
  • Settlement
    • City
    • Town
    • Village

DBpedia SPARQL endpoint can be used to query DBpedia's datasets with SPARQL query language.

DBpedia

• DBpedia wiki
• DBpedia blog
• DBpedia wiki on the Databus - Alpha published in May 2018

See also

• Database for a higher level view of what is going on with the databases
• Semantic MediaWiki is system for inputting and querying semantic data within the MediaWiki and it is implemented as extension(s).
• Wikidata and the underlying Wikibase extensions