freebase

Hi everyone.

I just joined this group and wanted to let you know about an effort of ours to create a module to fetch taxonomy terms from external sources. This would mean no more free hand tags and instead the autocomplete field keyword searches a bunch of providers through their open apis.

The providers are modular in nature, so anyone can make a new provider for the base module, which is called Yild (Yild - integrator for Linked Data).

Based on the comments in http://groups.drupal.org/node/152939 I made a draft implementation of what I was considering as a 'semantic form widget' using Freebase's 'suggest' widget.

Module code is available here: http://github.com/adorsk-whoi/fb_reference

Details

The module defines a 'Freebase Reference' field type which can be used to reference freebase topics via Freebase's suggest widget.