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Re:DBpedia Ontology by danbruc on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:11PM (#34083380)
Am I misunderstanding something or are DBpedia and Wikidata essentially trying to do the same thing?
Re:DBpedia Ontology by zozbot234 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:26PM (#34083560)
They'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.
Re:DBpedia Ontology by macrolime on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:34PM (#34083707)
DBPedia is extracting data from infoboxes in Wikipedia, but increasingly Wikidata is the source of the data in the infoboxes.
Re:DBpedia Ontology by mark_l_watson on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:03AM (#34090020)
They 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.