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Data: Beta Release of Wikidata Query Service Now Live

Filed by on September 13, 2015

From the Wikidata Mailing List (via Wikimedia Tech News):

The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the Wikidata Query Service.

You can find the interface for the service at https://query.wikidata.org.

The Wikidata Query Service is designed to let users run queries on the data contained in Wikidata. The service uses SPARQL as the query language.

You can see some example queries in the user manual.

See Also: Exploring Linked Data (Wikimedia on Github)

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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