Embedding the widget Simple custom document queries from the Knowledge Services API can be embedded on any web page, with minimal technical knowledge, using our new web based API widget. In the example below the widget is used to present metadata from a new IDS knowledge services data set about research on Covid-19 funded by… Continue reading New API Client for embedding Covid-19 data
Category: Applications
WordPress plugin
Pablo Accuosto, from SendasAL in Uruguay, has developed a module for the popular WordPress CMS to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The module allows the administrator to select document content, organisations, countries, regions and taxonomy terms from either Eldis or BRIDGE, and… Continue reading WordPress plugin
Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA) tablet application
As part of the call for proposals for grants for small technical projects, IDS KS funded developers, Gebre Wallace, Matthew McNaughton and Jonathon Smith of the Caribbean Open Institute (COI), which is housed Mona School Of Business, University Of The West Indies, Jamaica, to develop a tablet application Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA). The Agriculture… Continue reading Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA) tablet application
HTML widget
@iLabAfrica in Kenya have developed an HTML widget to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The application allows website administrators to configure a HTML widget which can be embedded in a website with a few simple lines… Continue reading HTML widget
API projects on Github
Plone-plugin OneWorld South Asia have developed a IDS Knowledge Services plug in for the popular Plone CMS. The plug in allows the administrator to select content from either BRIDGE or Eldis, and import this as new articles in the site. (1 watcher) idsapi IDS API service plugin for dokuwiki (1 watcher) Drupal-modules These modules provide… Continue reading API projects on Github
Latest Eldis research documents on your mobile
We have developed a number of applications that illustrate not only the things that you can do with the Knowledge Services API, but also what information you can obtain from the Knowledge Services datasets. We have created a mobile web app that enables you to search a number of thematic areas and return the latest documents… Continue reading Latest Eldis research documents on your mobile
Regional document visualisation
We have developed a number of applications that illustrate not only the things that you can do with the Knowledge Services API, but also what information you can obtain from the Knowledge Services datasets. We have created a Regional document visualisation which shows the number of documents currently published on the Eldis website for each… Continue reading Regional document visualisation
Tagcloud generator
We have developed a number of applications that illustrate not only the things that you can do with the Knowledge Services API, but also what information you can obtain from the Knowledge Services datasets. We have created a tagcloud generator which visualises the frequency of themes, keywords and countries that occur in the documents, and… Continue reading Tagcloud generator
Linked Data
Recently the IDS Knowledge Services offered a grant to Christophe Guéret and Victor de Boer from VU University Amsterdam to investigate exposing the IDS Knowledge Services data as RDF and to build some client applications making use of the enriched data. Their aim was to use the API as it is and created 5-star Linked Data by linking the created… Continue reading Linked Data
Locwise – a spatial and concept filtering search application
As part of the call for proposals for grants for small technical projects, IDS KS funded developers, Arun Ramanujapuram and Vani S Hemmige, based in India, to develop Locwise – a spatial and semantic refiner of search results. Built using content from the IDS KS API, LocWise enables users to quickly find locale-specific research by… Continue reading Locwise – a spatial and concept filtering search application