Excellent work Markus. Your tools are helping me to debunk bad science the
world over[1].
Keep up the great work.

Max

PS. By the way, if you do stack overflow you may want to chime in on this
purpose-built question[2].

[1]
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/wikipedia-mining-algorithm-reveals-the-most-influential-people-in-35-centuries-of-human-history-ede5ef827b76
[2]
http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/107/when-will-the-wikidata-database-be-available-for-download/

Max Klein
‽ http://notconfusing.com/


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am happy to announce the second release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the
> Java library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. This release fixes
> bugs and improves features of the first release (download, parse, process
> Wikidata exports) and it adds new components for serializing JSON and RDF
> exports for Wikidata. A separate announcement regarding the RDF exports
> will be sent shortly.
>
> 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 [2] and of course the sources [3].
>
> Version 0.2.0 is still in alpha. For the next release, we will focus on
> the following tasks:
>
> * Faster loading of Wikibase dumps + support for the new JSON format that
> will be used in the dumps soon
> * Support for storing and querying data after loading it
> * Initial steps towards storing data in a binary format after loading it
>
> Feedback is welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via github.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit
> [2] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/releases
> (you'll also need to install the third party dependencies manually when
> using this)
> [3] https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikidata-l mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
>
_______________________________________________
Wikidata-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Reply via email to