DBpedia is a crowd-sourced effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and Wikidata. It provides a public SPARQL endpoint to query this multi-domain, multilingual dataset. The DBpedia Association was founded in 2014 as a non-profit to oversee DBpedia and aims to improve uptime, data quality, and integration with other sources. It relies on funding and contributions from members to achieve goals like 99.99% uptime across languages and domains. The document promotes joining the DBpedia Association and participating in future events like a DBpedia meeting at the SEMANTiCS 2016 conference.