Use Cases
Support Wikipedia Authors with Editing Suggestions
One strength of Wikipedia, and a central factor for its growth, is that it does not restrict contributors. On the other hand, this leads to many inconsistencies within Wikipedia, especially between the 251 different language versions.
Nucleus for the Web of Data
The Web is currently changing from a medium to publish and share text documents into a medium to publish and share data.
Multi-Domain Ontology
DBpedia is one of the largest multi-domain ontologies that currently exist.
Document Classification, Annotation and Social Bookmarking
Terms from DBpedia can be used to annotate Web content. Compared to other subject hierarchies, like the classic ones used within libraries, DBpedia has the advantage that each subject is backed by a rich description including abstracts in 14 languages.
Mobile and Geographic Applications
DBpedia contains information about geographic locations and is interlinked with other geo-related data sources such as Geonames, the US Census, EuroStat, and the CIA world fact book.
Include DBpedia Data in Your Web Page
One nice thing about Wikipedia is that is kept up-to-date by a large community.
Revolutionize Wikipedia Search
Wikipedia currently only supports keyword-based search and does not allow more expressive queries like "Give me all cities in New Jersey with more than 10,000 inhabitants" or "Give me all Italian musicians from the 18th century." This lowers the overall utility of Wikipedia.