On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus@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.

Cheers
Lydia

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