On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am happy to announce the very first release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the
> Java library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. This initial
> release can download and parse Wikidata dump files for you, so as to process
> all Wikidata content in a streaming fashion. An example program is provided
> [2]. The libary can also be used with MediaWiki dumps generated by other
> Wikibase installations (if you happen to work in EAGLE ;-).
>
> 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 0.1.0 is of course alpha, but the code that we have is already
> well-tested and well-documented. Improvements that are planned for the next
> release include:
>
> * Faster and more robust loading of Wikibase dumps
> * Support for various serialization formats, such as JSON and RDF
> * Initial support for Wikibase API access
>
> Nevertheless, you can already give it a try now. In later releases, it is
> also planned to support more advanced processing after loading, especially
> for storing and querying the data.
>
> Feedback is welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via github.

Congrats, Markus! Great to see a first release.
Want to post something on Wikidata:Project chat too?


Cheers
Lydia

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