Wikidata vs DBpedia

[kumar rohit <ku...@gmail.com>]

I am sorry if it is slightly off topic.

How Wikidata differs from DBpedia, in terms of building semantic web
applications. Wikidata, as I studied as, is a knowledge base which every
one can edit? How it differs then from Wikipedia?

DBpedia extracts structured data from wikipedia infoboxes and publishes it
as rdf.

If we need Berlin population, we get it from DBpedia via SPARQL. If we can
do it, why then we need Berlin resource in Wikidata?

This question will look strange for some, but I want to understand the
concept.
Thank you

Re: Wikidata vs DBpedia

[kumar rohit <ku...@gmail.com>]

Hello Lorenz, if it can not be extracted like DBpedia then how can we use
it in our application. Several month ago, I asked a question, I think here,
that if some data is not available on DBpedia, what we should do and some
body respond that do use Wikidata.
How can we make use of Wikidata in our applications?

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Lorenz B. <
buehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> That question could be applied to any other thing in the world where two
> possible options exists...
>
> "why should I use A if I can do what I want already with B?"
>
> I'd suggest read more about Wikidata in your case, then it should be
> clear that Wikidata provides a totally different concept how the data is
> added. It does not extract data from Wikipedia, as DBpedia does, is a
> user curated source for for structured information which is included in
> Wikipedia.
>
> > I am sorry if it is slightly off topic.
> >
> > How Wikidata differs from DBpedia, in terms of building semantic web
> > applications. Wikidata, as I studied as, is a knowledge base which every
> > one can edit? How it differs then from Wikipedia?
> >
> > DBpedia extracts structured data from wikipedia infoboxes and publishes
> it
> > as rdf.
> >
> > If we need Berlin population, we get it from DBpedia via SPARQL. If we
> can
> > do it, why then we need Berlin resource in Wikidata?
> >
> > This question will look strange for some, but I want to understand the
> > concept.
> > Thank you
> >
> --
> Lorenz Bühmann
> AKSW group, University of Leipzig
> Group: http://aksw.org - semantic web research center
>
>

Re: Wikidata vs DBpedia

["Lorenz B." <bu...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>]

That question could be applied to any other thing in the world where two
possible options exists...

"why should I use A if I can do what I want already with B?"

I'd suggest read more about Wikidata in your case, then it should be
clear that Wikidata provides a totally different concept how the data is
added. It does not extract data from Wikipedia, as DBpedia does, is a
user curated source for for structured information which is included in
Wikipedia.

> I am sorry if it is slightly off topic.
>
> How Wikidata differs from DBpedia, in terms of building semantic web
> applications. Wikidata, as I studied as, is a knowledge base which every
> one can edit? How it differs then from Wikipedia?
>
> DBpedia extracts structured data from wikipedia infoboxes and publishes it
> as rdf.
>
> If we need Berlin population, we get it from DBpedia via SPARQL. If we can
> do it, why then we need Berlin resource in Wikidata?
>
> This question will look strange for some, but I want to understand the
> concept.
> Thank you
>
-- 
Lorenz Bühmann
AKSW group, University of Leipzig
Group: http://aksw.org - semantic web research center

Re: Wikidata vs DBpedia

["A. Soroka" <aj...@virginia.edu>]

This would be a much better question for either the Wikidata mailing list [1] or the DBpedia support system [2].

---
A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
[2] http://wiki.dbpedia.org/support

> On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:36 AM, kumar rohit <ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am sorry if it is slightly off topic.
> 
> How Wikidata differs from DBpedia, in terms of building semantic web
> applications. Wikidata, as I studied as, is a knowledge base which every
> one can edit? How it differs then from Wikipedia?
> 
> DBpedia extracts structured data from wikipedia infoboxes and publishes it
> as rdf.
> 
> If we need Berlin population, we get it from DBpedia via SPARQL. If we can
> do it, why then we need Berlin resource in Wikidata?
> 
> This question will look strange for some, but I want to understand the
> concept.
> Thank you