Hi all,
The new Wikidata Toolkit project has started this week, so here is a
brief update. You are invited to participate and to comment. Early users
will enjoy a special first-level support: if you have an interesting
use-case for our project, we will help you get started and prioritize
your requirements.
Wikidata Toolkit is going to be a Java library to work with Wikidata
(and Wikibase in general). It will allow you to load, query, and analyse
the data, and to export it to a variety of formats.
Key facts:
* Homepage:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit
* Code:
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit
* Planned milestones:
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/issues/milestones
* Project plan (high level):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit
Our current team consists of four people: Fredo Erxleben, Julian Mendez,
Michael Günther, and myself. Development is supported by the Wikimedia
Foundation and by the German Research Foundation. The project is
initially planned for six months.
You are invited to contribute code/feature requests/use cases. If you
have a concrete task that you would like to solve, please let us know,
and we will see what we can do. Our first release 0.1 should be able to
create data exports in RDF and maybe in other formats from the internal
Wikidata dump files. If you need Wikidata in other formats, please let
us know.
Our later releases will be able to load data and add query capabilities
that allow you to analyse the data. Again, your requirements are welcome.
Cheers,
Markus
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Markus Kroetzsch
Faculty of Computer Science
Technische Universität Dresden
+49 351 463 38486
http://korrekt.org/