I think this question has come up before, but I was wondering if there was anyone has a
working Wikidata Suggest widget of some kind that works similarly to Freebase Suggest
which has finally been turned off completely:
https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/suggest
I've been using Freebase entities in the past to provide some measure of data
normalization, and am in the middle of converting my entities over to Wikidata. The
specific application is a jobs board that needs to control the names for Organizations,
Subjects and Locations [1,2].
I need to create suggest like functionality in the application and was wondering if anyone
else had done anything like a Freebase Suggest already. If this is a gap area I was
thinking of creating a React component that uses the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint [3] which I
was pleased to see already supports CORS. But I'm not married to React, so if someone
has another JavaScript library that does this I'd love to hear from you.
//Ed
[1]
https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/issues/38
[2]
http://jobs.code4lib.org
[3]
https://query.wikidata.org/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql