Ah, interesting. That's what I meant with incremental changeset provided by the source maintainer. I knew that there was something like this for DBpedia, simply providing changesets of triples. Weird that there is no RDF format available for Wikidata. Maybe Laura could open a feature request.
By the way, thanks for RDF Patch pointer. Cheers, Lorenz On 24.11.2017 18:43, ajs6f wrote: > Wikimedia does offer a sort of general procedure for this: you can check to > see the updates since the last dump and do per-resource changes. > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access#Incremental_updates > > But perhaps more efficiently for yourself, you could use their incremental > dumps: > > https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/incr/wikidatawiki/ > > which are for some reason only provided in XML. > > ajs6f > >> On Nov 24, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Laura Morales <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Laura, can you tell us a little more about why you are trying to avoid >>> transmitting the whole graph? Is it because of an unreliable network >>> between your client and Fuseki or because of something else? >> Wikidata is about 4 billion triples, and it takes a lot of time to create >> the TDB store from the nt file. They release a new dump about once a week, >> and I would like to update my local copy when they release a new dump. >> Reloading the entire graph from scratch every time seems very inefficient >> (as well as an intensive process) considering that only a tiny % of the >> wikidata graph changes in a week. >
