Editors’ Choice: Mapping Wikipedia: Geolocated Articles as a Proxy of Culture and Attention
I thought, why not map the places that had Wikipedia articles associated with them, to see what patterns emerged. The results of this excursion are presented below.
DBpedia is the ongoing attempt to transform Wikipedia into a semantically rich and queryable database of human knowledge. It stores much of the categorical information found in Wikipedia articles using RDF triples–simple links for every snippet of data, from the death date of a famous (and sometimes even real) person to the season number of every Simpsons episode, to the latitude and longitude of over half a million articles on a wide variety of subjects.
Jon is the director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, and he brought with him two undergraduate research assistants, Jenny Rempel