On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Markus Kroetzsch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am happy to announce the release of Wikidata Toolkit 0.4.0 [1], the Java
> library for programming with Wikidata and Wikibase. The main new features
> are:
>
> * Full support of a variety of new Wikidata features (including statements
> on properties and new datatypes)
> * More robust JSON parsing so as to tolerate bugs in the JSON structure
> * Several new utilities to copy and filter data
> * A new stand-alone command-line client to process the Wikidata dumps
> without actually writing your own Java program [2]. The current main use of
> this is to generate custom RDF dumps (we use it for the dumps we publish),
> but it can also be extended with other processing actions in the future.
>
> 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].
>
> Feedback is very welcome. Developers are also invited to contribute via
> github.


Congrats, Markus and everyone else who helped with this release.
Looking forward to seeing what people will do with it.


Cheers
Lydia

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