Hi all,
I am happy to announce the release of Wikidata Toolkit 0.4.0 [1], the
Java library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. The main new
features are:
* Full support of a variety of new Wikidata features (including
statements on properties and new datatypes)
* More robust JSON parsing so as to tolerate bugs in the JSON structure
* Several new utilities to copy and filter data
* A new stand-alone command-line client to process the Wikidata dumps
without actually writing your own Java program [2]. The current main use
of this is to generate custom RDF dumps (we use it for the dumps we
publish), but it can also be extended with other processing actions in
the future.
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].
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/