From the webpage:
As some of the potential users of DBpedia might not be familiar with the RDF data model and the SPARQL query language, we provide some of the core DBpedia 3.9 data also in tabular form as Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) files, which can easily be processed using standard tools, such as spreadsheet applications, relational databases or data mining tools.
For each class in the DBpedia ontology (such as Person, Radio Station, Ice Hockey Player, or Band) we provide a single CSV file which contains all instances of this class. Each instance is described by its URI, an English label and a short abstract, the mapping-based infobox data describing the instance (extracted from the English edition of Wikipedia), and geo-coordinates.
Altogether we provide 530 CVS files in the form of a single ZIP file (size 3 GB compressed and 73.4 GB when uncompressed).
The ZIP file can be downloaded here (3 GB).
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I have to admit that I applaud the move to release DBpedia as CSV files.
Despite my long time and continuing allegiance to XML, there are times when CSV is the optimum format for interchange.
You need to mark this date on your calendar.
I am curious what projects will appear using DBpedia data, based on the CSV version, in the next calendar year?
I first saw this in a tweet by Nicolas Torzec.