This is something I had already thought about, but haven't bothered with as yet, because there have been (small) data changes in just about every recent release.
Ultimately I think it would be best to move all the data into a git-submodule, then it could be easily packaged seperately, and would make total-conversions much simpler for people to prepare as well.
Hopefully we might get this done before 0.4.
Cheers.