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RML and FnO: Shaping DBpedia Declaratively

Ben De Meester, Wouter Maroy, Anastasia Dimou, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens

DBpedia data is largely generated from extracting and parsing the wikitext from the infoboxes of Wikipedia. This generation process is handled by the DBpedia Extraction Framework (DBpedia EF). This framework currently consists of data transformations, a series of custom hard-coded steps which parse the wikitext, and schema transformations, which model the resulting RDF data. Therefore, applying changes to the resulting RDF data needs both Semantic Web expertise and development within the DBpedia EF. As such, the current DBpedia data is being shaped by a small amount of core developers. However, by describing both schema and data transformations declaratively, we shape and generate the DBpedia data using solely declarations, splitting the concerns between implementation and modeling. The parsing functions development is decoupled from the DBpedia EF, and other data transformation functions can easily be integrated during DBpedia data generation. This demo showcases an interactive Web application that allows non-technical users to (re-)shape the DBpedia data and use external data transformation functions, solely by editing the mapping document via HTML controls.

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Published in 2017 in Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos.

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@inproceedings{demeester_eswc_demo_2017,
  author = {De Meester, Ben and Maroy, Wouter and Dimou, Anastasia and Verborgh, Ruben and Mannens, Erik},
  title = {{RML and FnO:} Shaping {DBpedia} Declaratively},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos},
  editor = {Blomqvist, Eva and Hose, Katja and Paulheim, Heiko and {\L}awrynowicz, Agnieszka and Ciravegna, Fabio and Hartig, Olaf},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume = 10577,
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages = {172--177},
  isbn = {978-3-319-70407-4},
  year = 2017,
  month = may,
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_32},
}

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Ben De Meester, Wouter Maroy, Anastasia Dimou, Ruben Verborgh, and Erik Mannens. 2017. RML and FnO: Shaping DBpedia Declaratively. In Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), Springer, 172–177.
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De Meester, B., Maroy, W., Dimou, A., Verborgh, R., & Mannens, E. (2017). RML and FnO: Shaping DBpedia Declaratively. In E. Blomqvist, K. Hose, H. Paulheim, A. Ławrynowicz, F. Ciravegna, & O. Hartig (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos (Vol. 10577, pp. 172–177). Springer.
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B. De Meester, W. Maroy, A. Dimou, R. Verborgh, and E. Mannens, “RML and FnO: Shaping DBpedia Declaratively,” in Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos, 2017, vol. 10577, pp. 172–177.
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De Meester, B., Maroy, W., Dimou, A., Verborgh, R., Mannens, E.: RML and FnO: Shaping DBpedia Declaratively. In: Blomqvist, E., Hose, K., Paulheim, H., Ławrynowicz, A., Ciravegna, F., and Hartig, O. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos. pp. 172–177. Springer (2017).
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De Meester, Ben, et al. “RML and FnO: Shaping DBpedia Declaratively.” Proceedings of the 14th ESWC: Posters and Demos, edited by Eva Blomqvist et al., vol. 10577, Springer, 2017, pp. 172–77.

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