DBpedia (from "DB" for "database") is a project aiming to extract structured content from the information created in the Wikipedia project. This structured information is made available on the World Wide Web. DBpedia allows users to semantically query relationships and properties of Wikipedia resources, including links to other related datasets. In 2008, Tim Berners-Lee described DBpedia as one of the most famous parts of the decentralized Linked Data effort. The project was started by people at the Free University of Berlin and Leipzig University in collaboration with OpenLink Software, and is now maintained by people at the University of Mannheim and Leipzig University. The first publicly available dataset was published in 2007. The data is made available under free licences (CC BY-SA), allowing others to reuse the dataset; it doesn't however use an open data license to waive the sui generis database rights. [citation needed] More information...
According to PR-model, dbpedia.org is ranked 8,726th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 1,436th in Russian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before rwnews.tw and after film.at in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
