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.
Thank you
Sachini