On 09/07/13 02:37, Anderson, David (NIH/NLM) [E] wrote:
> I'm looking for a lightweight autocomplete application for data entry. Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
>
>
> *         Import large controlled vocabularies into the app
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> *         Call up the app with a macro wherever I'm entering data
>
> *         Begin typing in a term from the vocabulary, get a list of suggestions for terms
>
> *         Select a term from the list and have it paste automatically into my data entry field
>
> Ideally it would load and suggest terms quickly. I've looked around, but nothing really stands out. Anyone using anything like this?

There's a worked example doing this a couple of ways using wikipedia at:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7834174/jquery-autocomplete-plugin-to-jquery-ui-autocomplete

In both cases note the 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php' URI. The 'en' 
part of that is a language code, switch it out for whatever natural 
language you're expecting people to type.

If you're working in a bi-lingual or multi-lingual environment, there's 
a category of redirects 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_alternative_languages‎ 
which allow you to autocomplete across languages. The rules around 
redirects only allow such redirects from languages with a direct 
connection to the subject matter. In theory wikidata could be use to 
build something more complete.

cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/