Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikidata-tech] Wikidata Toolkit 0.3.0 released

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.