On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Sachini Herath <sachini.mc(a)gmail.com> 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
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