Congratulations, Markus!! Thanks so much for developing these digital tools.
Scott On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Markus Krötzsch > <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.html - World University and School - like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare (not endorsed by MIT OCW) - incorporated as a nonprofit effective April 2010.
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