Spanish Semantic Wikipedia comes out
After months of gratuitous hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French. Thanks to this community effort, it is now possible enter a query on the Spanish DBpedia page, like How many Spanish bullfighters are (or have been) married to singers of traditional Spanish music (copla)? and receive the following response: Ortega Cano with Rocío Jurado, Curro Romero with Concha Márquez Piquer, and Francisco Ribera with Isabel Pantoja. Semantic version of the Wikipedia DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia and making it accessible on the Web. This information is generated by executing mapping documents that specify how data are mapped to the Semantic Web language (RDF) according to vocabularies commonly used by a large number of organizations. The RDF language is a World Wide Web consortium standard for data representation on the Web and is the groundwork of the Data Web (for more information, listen to Oscar Corcho explaining the initiative during a panel discussion on Spanish National Radio ). Spanish data for developers The DBpedia project has been generating semantic information from the English Wikipedia for some time. As of June 2011, the process of information generation extracts information from all 15 Wikipedia versions (languages). One of these is Spanish, to which the DBpedia internationalization committee has assigned a web site and query point (SPARQL Endpoint), like other languages. The Spanish DBpedia is being developed and sustained by researchers from the UAM (Mariano Rico) and the UPM's Facultad de Informática (Óscar Corcho), which are both members of the Spanish Linked Data Thematic Network, as well as private persons who dedicate time and effort to this initiative. It is a network devised for developers that maintain and manage semantic data, although it has applications directly related to specific professional groups, such as data driven journalists and the infomediary sector, among others. For journalists and infomediaries Data driven journalists search, check and create stories around relevant but hard-to-access information, rendering data using infographics or visualizations. The infomediary sector is composed of companies that generate value added applications, products and services for third parties from public domain information. By extracting data from the Wikipedia, DBpedia also detects possible source errors that can be reported to the editors for correction, thereby adding value to its enormous social potential.
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