dbpedia

Problem with a select SPARQL query on dbpedia

At http://dbpedia.org/sparql/ I want to select something like this: SELECT ?hostCity WHERE { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lisbon&gt; <http://dbpedia.org/property/hostCity&gt; ?hostCity . } Do you know, where is a problem? ...

Sparql skos:broader help

Hey guys, I'm doing a sparql query on the dbpedia set, but I am having some issues (due to lack of detailed sparql knowledge) with a query limition: I first 'get' all music artists: ?person rdf:type http://dbpedia.org/ontology/MusicalArtist . But I want to limit this to the broader category "Category:American_musicians" (via traversi...

Business Intelligence (BI) on Wikipedia data

Intro: I am a BI addict and would like to develop a project to drill-down Wikipedia's data. I would write scripts to extract data from dbpedia (probably beginning by people articles) and load it into a people table. My question is: Has anyone done this before? Even better, is there a community dedicated to this? If it the scripts are so...

Link weight between DBpedia objects

Hi guys, I am bit new to this semantic web topic and especially DBpedia, as much as I did reading about this I could not find any information about possibility to determine weight of link between DBpedia objects. For example, is it possible to determine that PHP is more related to Symfony than Ruby on Rails is, even though they are both...