One way to download specific parts of DBpedia is to use the DBpedia extraction framework and select the datasets or subsets that you are interested in. The DBpedia extraction framework is a set of scripts and tools for extracting structured information from Wikipedia and publishing it as Linked Data.
To download specific parts of DBpedia using the extraction framework, you can follow these general steps:
- Choose the datasets that you are interested in. DBpedia provides a wide range of datasets, such as the core dataset, which contains information about concepts and their properties, the ontology dataset, which describes the DBpedia ontology, and the mapping-based dataset, which contains information extracted from Wikipedia infobox templates.
- Download and install the DBpedia extraction framework. The extraction framework is available on GitHub and can be installed using Maven.
- Configure the extraction framework to extract the datasets that you are interested in. You can do this by editing the configuration files, which are located in the “extraction-framework/config” directory.
- Run the extraction framework to extract the datasets. You can do this by running the “run” script, which is located in the “extraction-framework” directory.
- Once the extraction is complete, you can access the datasets in the output directory, which is specified in the configuration files.
Note that the extraction process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, so it may be helpful to use a server with sufficient computational resources to perform the extraction. Additionally, you should ensure that you have permission to use the data in the way that you intend, as DBpedia is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.