On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Sachini Herath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’m Sachini Herath, an undergraduate from Sri Lanka. I am working on > building Linked Data mapping tools for Drupal 8 as my Google Summer of Code > 2015 project. The tools would enable the users to map Drupal entities to > Linked Data items. Details of the project can be found in my blog. > http://alongthetrail-sachini.rhcloud.com/ > > To select a Linked Data item, a dropdown element similar to freebase-suggest > widget is being developed, but in a more generic approach so that it can be > configured with any Linked Data Provider. > > For Wikidata, I'm using "wbsearchentities" API for querying and > "wbgetentities" for retrieving information about individual items in json > format. However I could not find a way to reconstruct the url of image > property for an item, so that I can fetch the image (property P18, P154 etc) > for displaying. Are there any APIs or alternative methods to fetch images > from Wikidata? > > I would also like to hear about any optimizations that can be done for the > query or alternate APIs. For example an API to return id, label, description > and image urls in just one/ few call/s.
The project looks really interesting! Please keep us posted on your progress. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
