Well,  Infovore 3.1 happened quickly after Infovore because I made a quick attempt to get my Jena up to date and found it was easy to update,  so I did.  The importance here is that there is a lot of cool stuff going on with Jena,  such as the RDFThrift serialization format,  and also some Hadoop I/O tools written by Rob Vesse,  and tracking the latest version helps us connect with that.  Release page here:

Infovore 3.1 was used to process the Freebase RDF Dump to create a quality-controlled RDF  data set called :BaseKB;  generally queries look the same on Freebase and :BaseKB,  but :BaseKB gives the right answers,  faster,  and with less memory consumption.  This week's release is in the AWS cloud:

s3://basekb-now/2014-11-09-00-00/

something very close to this is going to become :BaseKB Gold 2.  This is  simpler and better product that the last Gold release from Spring 2014.  Here are a few reasons:

* Unicode escape sequences in Freebase are now converted to Unicode characters in RDF

* The rejection rate of triples has dramatically dropped,  because of both changes to Infovore and improvements in Freebase content

* The product is now packaged as a set of files partitioned and sorted on subject;  this means you can download one file and get a sample of facts about a given topic;  there is no longer the "horizontal division"

Between duplicate fact filtering and compression,  :BaseKB Now is nearly half the size of the Freebase RDF Dump.