About
Uriverse is a site which allows you to explore a constellation of information. We do this by aggregating data about a wide range of subjects and make it available on a single page. We currently have around four million subjects in our database in 80 languages. These subjects then form the foundation for gathering extra information from around the web.
Each subject is based on a short description from Wikipedia. The core dataset has been derived from DBpedia, a semantic version of Wikipedia. DBPedia has extracted semantic infomation from Wikipedia such as dates, geo locations, names and relationships between subjects. Read the Uriverse Technical Overview for more details. This allows Uriverse query the data to show you interesting lists of things such as the richest people, the biggest companies or things in the vicinity of a certain location. We aim to bring a new interface to the data through interactive timelines, maps and ordered lists of things.
This basic information will be augmented with relevant, topical information from around the web. We have gathered (or will gather) photos, videos, news, weather and product suggestions for selected subjects in our database. Info will be gathered from blogs, feeds, creative commons content sites and various other third parties. We are only in the early stages at the moment, but the aim is to have a compelling pages which become more than the sum of their parts. Expect to see pages incrementally extended over time.
Uriverse also allows users to rate content. All you need to do is sign up and get rating. Somewhere down the track we will use the user contributed ratings to form suggestions for other content which the user may find interesting.
Thanks for checking out Uriverse. If you have any comments or suggestions then we would love to hear them.
