Hoi,
It reads like a lot of work went in there.. Congratulations.
I understand that it uses the live data and that it can be using dumps of
other installations :) Now how do I use it from Labs ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 September 2015 at 23:12, Markus Kroetzsch <
markus.kroetzsch(a)tu-dresden.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I am happy to announce the release of Wikidata Toolkit 0.5.0 [1], the Java
library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase.
The most prominent new feature of this release is Wikibase API support,
which allows you create Java programs that read and write data to Wikidata
(or any other Wikibase site). The API write functionality checks the live
data before making edits to merge statements for you and to detect edit
conflicts. New example programs illustrate this functionality. Overall, we
think this will make WDTK interesting for bot authors.
Other prominent features include:
* Unit support (just in time before it is enabled on
Wikidata.org ;-)
* Processing of local dump files not downloaded from Wikimedia (useful for
other Wikibase users)
* New builder classes to simplify construction of the rather complex data
objects we have in Wikidata
* WorldMapProcessor example (the code used to build the Wikidata maps)
* Improved output file naming for examples, taking dump date into account
* Several improvements in RDF export (but the general RDF structure is as
in 0.4.0; updating this to the new structure we have for the official
SPARQL endpoint is planned for the next release).
Maven users can get the library directly from Maven Central (see [1]);
this is the preferred method of installation. It might still take a moment
until the new packages become visible in Maven Central. There is also an
all-in-one JAR at github [3] and of course the sources [4] and updated
JavaDocs [5].
Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via
github.
Cheers,
Markus
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit/Client
[3]
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases
[4]
https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/
[5]
http://wikidata.github.io/Wikidata-Toolkit/
--
Markus Kroetzsch
Faculty of Computer Science
Technische Universität Dresden
+49 351 463 38486
http://korrekt.org/
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