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DBpedia Mappings Wiki

This is the DBpedia Mappings Wiki. Its contents are used by the DBpedia extraction framework. Here, you can edit

• the DBpedia ontology schema (classes, properties, datatypes)
• the DBpedia infobox-to-ontology mappings

The DBpedia extraction framework collects the templates defined here and extracts the Wikipedia content according to them in RDF. (learn how)

Mappings can be written for a variety of languages, while the ontology schema is ought to be used for all of them.

Mapping Example

This is how you write a simple infobox mapping.

Mapping:Infobox_actor

{{TemplateMapping 
| mapToClass = Actor 
| mappings = 
   {{ PropertyMapping | templateProperty = name | ontologyProperty = foaf:name }}
   {{ PropertyMapping | templateProperty = birth_place | ontologyProperty = birthPlace }}
}}

This mapping extracts three information bits:

1. the type information (Actor)
2. the name of the actor
3. the actor's place of birth.

Therefore, three RDF triples for each Infobox_actor in the English Wikipedia are extracted. For example for Vince Vaughn

dbpedia:Vince_Vaughn  rdf:type                dbpedia-owl:Actor .
dbpedia:Vince_Vaughn  foaf:name               "Vince Vaughn"@en .
dbpedia:Vince_Vaughn  dbpedia-owl:birthPlace  dbpedia:Minneapolis .

Further information:

• How to edit the ontology schema
• How to edit infobox and table mappings

Prerequisites

If you like to edit the mappings or ontology schema this is what you need:

• a user account on this wiki (register)
• editor rights
  • they will be given to you within a couple of days
  • if not, lease ask for editor rights at dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Max: question: should we make this dbpedia-developers? I don't think the whole discussion list cares about Heinz from Königs Wusterhausen getting editor rights
  • once you got editor rights, please provide some information about yourself on your user wiki page
• a namespace for the language you want to write mappings for
  • if the namespace does not exist already (see the left side bar) please request it at dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net

That's it!

That is all you need to kick-start. To get more detailed information, please follow the provided links.

Your contributions will be available

• in the DBpedia Live end point shortly after your edit (currently only for English)
• in the next DBpedia datasets release

Happy mapping!

About DBpedia

To learn more about DBpedia itself visit http://dbpedia.org/About.