DBpedia Navigator

A vision of the Semantic Web is to bring the benefits of semantic technologies to a wide audience. Large knowledge bases, such as DBpedia, YAGO, and others have emerged and are freely available as Linked Data and SPARQL endpoints. In this article, we introduce the application DBpedia Navigator, which allows users to navigate, search, and browse within DBpedia and the data sets interlinked with DBpedia. In particular, we present a novel feature called navigation suggestions. Based on the last instances viewed in DBpedia Navigator, the user gets suggestions about related instances he may be interested in. Those suggestions make full use of the semantics of the underlying knowledge base and are provided by a supervised Machine Learning algorithm for OWL, which we made available as open source in the DL-Learner project.