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.
Cheers,
Markus
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit
[2]
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/tree/master/wdtk-examples
(scroll down for documentation)
[3]
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases
(you'll also need to install the third party dependencies manually when
using this)
[4]
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/