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The dblp Knowledge Graph and SPARQL Endpoint

Authors Marcel R. Ackermann , Hannah Bast , Benedikt Maria Beckermann , Johannes Kalmbach , Patrick Neises , Stefan Ollinger

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Marcel R. Ackermann
  • Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, dblp computer science bibliography, Trier, Germany
Hannah Bast
  • University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science, Freiburg, Germany
Benedikt Maria Beckermann
  • Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, dblp computer science bibliography, Trier, Germany
Johannes Kalmbach
  • University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science, Freiburg, Germany
Patrick Neises
  • Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, dblp computer science bibliography, Trier, Germany
Stefan Ollinger
  • Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, dblp computer science bibliography, Trier, Germany

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  • Beckermann, Benedikt Maria: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/460676019
  • Ollinger, Stefan: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/460234259; https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/501930651

Acknowledgements

The dblp team would like to thank Silvio Peroni, Ralf Schenkel, and Tobias Zeimetz for the many fruitful discussions and practical help with the specification of the dblp RDF schema. We would also like to thank the many members of the dblp community who sent us their comments, thoughts, criticisms, and suggestions from working with the early versions of the dblp RDF data. Many thanks to Michael Wagner and Michael Didas from the Dagstuhl Publishing team for their support in creating a sustainable workflow for publishing and preserving persistent dblp RDF snapshot releases.

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Marcel R. Ackermann, Hannah Bast, Benedikt Maria Beckermann, Johannes Kalmbach, Patrick Neises, and Stefan Ollinger. The dblp Knowledge Graph and SPARQL Endpoint. In Special Issue on Resources for Graph Data and Knowledge. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 3:1-3:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/TGDK.2.2.3

Abstract

For more than 30 years, the dblp computer science bibliography has provided quality-checked and curated bibliographic metadata on major computer science journals, proceedings, and monographs. Its semantic content has been published as RDF or similar graph data by third parties in the past, but most of these resources have now disappeared from the web or are no longer actively synchronized with the latest dblp data. In this article, we introduce the dblp Knowledge Graph (dblp KG), the first semantic representation of the dblp data that is designed and maintained by the dblp team. The dataset is augmented by citation data from the OpenCitations corpus. Open and FAIR access to the data is provided via daily updated RDF dumps, persistently archived monthly releases, a new public SPARQL endpoint with a powerful user interface, and a linked open data API. We also make it easy to self-host a replica of our SPARQL endpoint. We provide an introduction on how to work with the dblp KG and the added citation data using our SPARQL endpoint, with several example queries. Finally, we present the results of a small performance evaluation.

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  • Information systems → Digital libraries and archives
  • Information systems → Graph-based database models
  • Computing methodologies → Knowledge representation and reasoning
Keywords
  • dblp
  • Scholarly Knowledge Graph
  • Resource
  • RDF
  • SPARQL

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