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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 > > * 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 -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/