Fantastic! Thank you so much Thomas!

I completed the survey and would like to add a few points: - OpenRefine is dropping Java 7 - for the RDF export feature, maybe we could repurpose it to export statements to the Primary Sources Tool. I think the new version of the PST is expected to ingest statements in RDF, in a format that might differ somewhat from what is available in the WDQS. But that use case is probably quite different from what is currently in the code base, so maybe it's worth starting from scratch.

Antonin

On 18/12/2017 19:00, Jo wrote:

Thanks a million! I can finally login to Wikidata using the .jar file.

Polyglot

2017-12-18 18:32 GMT+01:00 Thomas Pellissier Tanon <thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr mailto:thomas@pellissier-tanon.fr>:

Dear all,

I just released a new version (0.8) of the Wikidata Toolkit [1].
Wikidata Toolkit is a Java library allowing to easily reuse Wikidata
content using dumps or the API but also providing helpers for editing.


This release mainly adds several fixes that are needed to keep
Wikidata Toolkit working with the changes done on Wikidata provides
support for JDK 9.

It also provides two features related to the Wikibase API: it is now
possible to edit labels, descriptions and aliases using the
WikibaseDataEditor (this is a work in progress that is likely to
change) and there is now a wrapper for the wbEntitySearch API action.


We have created a short survey to help doing technical choices for
the future versions of the Wikidata Toolkit, especially related to
Java 7 support and the RDF converter. Please fill it if you are
using Wikidata Toolkit (it should take less than a minute):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN25X2sTv2wQe-y56d0hC4QmU06s6crr1GoGqx3qVNv3Fz5A/viewform
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdN25X2sTv2wQe-y56d0hC4QmU06s6crr1GoGqx3qVNv3Fz5A/viewform>


Best,

Thomas (Tpt)

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit>

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Hi guys,

Just a couple of clarifications from the primary sources tool development side.

On 12/18/17 20:12, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) wrote:

• for the RDF export feature, maybe we could repurpose it to export

statements to the Primary Sources Tool. I think the new version of the PST is expected to ingest statements in RDF,

Yes, RDF will be used in the new back end. Providers should upload their datasets in RDF. QuickStatements [1] will be still supported, by means of a converter [2]: if providers want to stick with it, they just need to run the converter before submitting their datasets. See also [3] for reference.

in a format that might differ somewhat from what is available in the WDQS.

The format is the same as WDQS [4], although it is a subset of the data model, for the sake of simplicity.

As a side note, The Wikidata toolkit seem to have a different RDF format (see first paragraph in [5]): I think it would be great if it could support the WDQS one.

Cheers,

Marco

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements [2] https://github.com/marfox/qs2rdf [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool#Data_format [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format