On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@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 -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l