On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Markus Krötzsch <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am happy to announce the third release of Wikidata Toolkit [1], the Java > library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. The main new features > are: > > * Full support for the (now) standard JSON format used by Wikidata > * Huge performance improvements (decompressing and parsing the whole JSON > dump now takes about 15min; was more like 80min before) > * Many new example programs for inspiration and guidance [2] > > 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 0.3.0 is still in alpha. For the next release, we will focus on the > following tasks: > > * Support a binary format for even faster random access (some of this is > done already, but not quite ready for release yet) > * A command-line tool for data processing/conversion tasks > * Support for storing and querying data > > Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via > github.
Congrats, Markus! Thanks for allowing people to build more cool tools around Wikidata. 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
