Hey y'all -

Just wanted to share some experiments I did using guoda / spark and wikidata:

Today, after loading the wikidata archive into hdfs, I've extracted all taxon items (~2M) from wikidata and associated taxon ids (e.g., gbif, itis) in less than about 5 minutes. You should be able to reproduce this using https://jupyter.idigbio.org and my notes at https://github.com/bio-guoda/guoda-datasets/tree/master/wikidata .

Reason for my interest is to link GloBI into wikidata taxon items (e.g., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140), to retrieve associated data (e.g., images, common names) and to be able to share species interaction data with wikidata using their native ids (e.g., https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/issues/209). I am sure other projects have similar needs.

Needless to say, I would have been unable to do this data experiment without the guoda systems that are up and running.

Curious to hear your thoughts and hope you find this inspiring,

-jorrit