Dear all,
I am happy to announce the third release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the Java library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. The main new features are:
* Full support for the (now) standard JSON format used by Wikidata * Huge performance improvements (decompressing and parsing the whole JSON dump now takes about 15min; was more like 80min before) * Many new example programs for inspiration and guidance [2]
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 0.3.0 is still in alpha. For the next release, we will focus on the following tasks:
* Support a binary format for even faster random access (some of this is done already, but not quite ready for release yet) * A command-line tool for data processing/conversion tasks * Support for storing and querying data
Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via github.
Cheers,
Markus
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit [2] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/tree/master/wdtk-examples (scroll down for documentation) [3] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases (you'll also need to install the third party dependencies manually when using this) [4] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to announce the third release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the Java library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. The main new features are:
- Full support for the (now) standard JSON format used by Wikidata
- Huge performance improvements (decompressing and parsing the whole JSON
dump now takes about 15min; was more like 80min before)
- Many new example programs for inspiration and guidance [2]
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 0.3.0 is still in alpha. For the next release, we will focus on the following tasks:
- Support a binary format for even faster random access (some of this is
done already, but not quite ready for release yet)
- A command-line tool for data processing/conversion tasks
- Support for storing and querying data
Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via github.
Congrats, Markus! Thanks for allowing people to build more cool tools around Wikidata.
Cheers Lydia
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am happy to announce the third release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the
Java
library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. The main new features are:
- Full support for the (now) standard JSON format used by Wikidata
- Huge performance improvements (decompressing and parsing the whole JSON
dump now takes about 15min; was more like 80min before)
- Many new example programs for inspiration and guidance [2]
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 0.3.0 is still in alpha. For the next release, we will focus on
the
following tasks:
- Support a binary format for even faster random access (some of this is
done already, but not quite ready for release yet)
- A command-line tool for data processing/conversion tasks
- Support for storing and querying data
Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via github.
Congrats, Markus! Thanks for allowing people to build more cool tools around Wikidata.
Yes Thank You Markus. The expanded examples section is really useful in showing what can be done.
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata
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