DBpedia 3.8 released, including enlarged Ontology and additional localized Versions

Hi all,

we are happy to announce the release of DBpedia 3.8. 

The most important improvements of the new release compared to DBpedia 3.7
are:

1. the DBpedia 3.8 release is based on updated Wikipedia dumps dating from
late May/early June 2012.
2. the DBpedia ontology is enlarged and the number of infobox to ontology
mappings has risen.
3. the DBpedia internationalization has progressed and we now provide
localized versions of DBpedia in even more languages.

The English version of the DBpedia 3.8 knowledge base describes 3.77 million
things, out of which 2.35 million are classified in a consistent Ontology,
including 764,000 persons, 573,000 places (including 387,000 populated
places), 333,000 creative works (including 112,000 music albums, 72,000
films and 18,000 video games), 192,000 organizations (including 45,000
companies and 42,000 educational institutions), 202,000 species and 5,500
diseases.

We provide localized versions of DBpedia in 111 languages. All these
versions together describe 20.8 million things, out of which 10.5 mio
overlap (are interlinked) with concepts from the English DBpedia. The full
DBpedia data set features labels and abstracts for 10.3 million unique
things in 111 different languages; 8.0 million links to images and 24.4
million HTML links to external web pages; 27.2 million data links into
external RDF data sets, 55.8 million links to Wikipedia categories, and 8.2
million YAGO categories. The dataset consists of 1.89 billion pieces of