Hi Chinmay,

you can get the properties for an item, or the items that have a property, via the wikilinks. If you want the items the properties point /to/, you'll have to query each individually.

If you don't need up-to-the-minute data, try my API at http://208.80.153.172/ It lags about a day behind the live site, but it can get you results for complex queries in fractions of a second.

Cheers, Magnus

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Chinmay Naik chin.naik26@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, I am Chinmay Naik, a GSoc intern working on a "Gene Bot" for Crowdsourcing Biology. We are considering about a search interface which retrieves wikidata items based on properties. Something similar to this ( http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools#WikiData_query). Any suggestions/pointers regarding this would be of great help.

Thanks, Chinmay

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Am 27.06.2013 21:00, schrieb Chinmay Naik:

Hi, I am Chinmay Naik, a GSoc intern working on a "Gene Bot" for Crowdsourcing Biology. We are considering about a search interface which retrieves wikidata items based on properties. Something similar to this (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools#WikiData_query). Any suggestions/pointers regarding this would be of great help.

Hi Chinmay!

Simply by-property queries are on the road map for integration into wikidata.org, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries for a rough spec. The road map isn't finalized yet, but I'd expect this feature to go live some time in fall.

That is to say, I recommend to not put too much effort into implementing this. If you need a stop gap solution for now (e.g. a local database fed from a dump), I suggest to isolate this as much as possible from the rest of your project, so you can easily replace it with the "real" service once it becomes available (or use something like Magnus' query tool in the mean time).

-- daniel