Hi Daniel,

I started working on the DBpedia release and just wanted to check
what's the current status of the Wikidata dumps. I saw that RDF data
and RDF URIs like http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1 are already
available. Cool! Do you think there will be RDF dumps soon, i.e. in
the next few weeks?

If not, could you guys prepare a dump of the sitelinks table, as you
suggested below? If it's not too much effort, it would be cool if you
could generate CSV or a similar simple format. We won't put the stuff
into a DB, we just extract the data, and we would have to write a
parser for SQL insert statements. CSV would be much simpler.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Christopher

On 4 May 2013 23:36, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04.05.2013 19:13, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt wrote:
>> We will produce a DBpedia release pretty soon, I don't think we can
>> wait for the "real" dumps. The inter-language links are an important
>> part of DBpedia, so we have to extract data from almost all Wikidata
>> items. I don't think it's sensible to make ~10 million calls to the
>> API to download the external JSON format, so we will have to use the
>> XML dumps and thus the internal format.
>
> Oh, if it's just the language links, this isn't an issue: there's an 
> additional
> table for them in the database, and we'll soon be providing a separate dump of
> that at table http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/
>
> If it's not there when you need it, just ask us for a dump of the sitelinks
> table (technically, wb_items_per_site), and we'll get you one.
>
>> But I think it's not a big
>> deal that it's not that stable: we parse the JSON into an AST anyway.
>> It just means that we will have to use a more abstract AST, which I
>> was planning to do anyway. As long as the semantics of the internal
>> format will remain more or less the same - it will contain the labels,
>> the language links, the properties, etc. - it's no big deal if the
>> syntax changes, even if it's not JSON anymore.
>
> Yes, if you want the labels and properties in addition to the links, you'll 
> have
> to do that for now. But I'm working on the "real" data dumps.
>
> -- daniel
>

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