datasources

Conze.pt encyclopedic showcase of datasource options

The Conzept datasource system allows any REST or SPARQL API to be added to a Conzept system and render topics in the sidebar.

User benefits:

  • Allow the user to choose which datasources to use.
  • Have auto-completion work too (if wanted and possible).
  • Make the API search results show in the same style and results-paging mechanics.
  • Let the topic results be augmented from Wikidata (if a Qid is provided for the topic).

Developer benefits:

  • Makes adding new datasources simple and quick, but still flexible in terms of the rendered output.

use cases

  • Allow for adding extra “data sources” to a Conzept system, so other concepts - beyond Wikipedia and Wikidata - can also be presented.
  • Any organization that wants to use the Conzept user-interface for showing and augmenting their own knowledge base.

adding a new datasource

  1. Add the new datasource to the datasource-configuration file here: src/data/datasources.js
  2. Add a new datasource directory (using the name of the datasource, eg. “gleif”)
  3. Add a new JS file in that directory, implementing the required API access functions, example: src/datasources/gleif/index.js

See also:

utility functions

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