On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to announce the third release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the
Java
library for programming with Wikidata and
Wikibase. The main new features
are:
* Full support for the (now) standard JSON format used by Wikidata
* Huge performance improvements (decompressing and parsing the whole JSON
dump now takes about 15min; was more like 80min before)
* Many new example programs for inspiration and guidance [2]
Maven users can get the library directly from Maven Central (see [1]);
this
is the preferred method of installation. There is
also an all-in-one JAR
at
github [3] and of course the sources [4].
Version 0.3.0 is still in alpha. For the next release, we will focus on
the
following tasks:
* Support a binary format for even faster random access (some of this is
done already, but not quite ready for release yet)
* A command-line tool for data processing/conversion tasks
* Support for storing and querying data
Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via
github.
Congrats, Markus! Thanks for allowing people to build more cool tools
around Wikidata.
Yes Thank You Markus. The expanded examples section is really useful in
showing what can be done.
Cheers
Lydia
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