Using OData to populate an editor template?

I'm planning a project for a company that wants to incorporate OData into the CMS - for example, they want to pull a list of publications from an OData URL into an editor template, and select one or more of these to display alongside the article on the page (using checkboxes would be my guess, with each one related to a publication ID).

I'm fairly sure that they'd need to supply the article ID in the template on the first pass, save it, and then use that ID to get the OData feed... but is incorporating OData like this even possible?