Sponger Configuration

While many Sponger cartridges generate Linked Data from standard open data formats, such as Atom, CSV and hCard, others extract the source data from proprietary Web services. Many of these services control access to their Web APIs, typically through an API key, username and password, OAuth access token and the like. To gain access to one of these Web services, the corresponding cartridge must be configured with the required authorization credentials.

These and other cartridge settings should be configured by your Virtuoso administrator before the cartridge is used.

They are set through the cartridge's configuration panel (shown below) which is displayed on the 'Sponger' tab of Virtuoso's Conductor UI, under the 'RDF' tab. Clicking on one of the listed cartridges displays the settings for that cartridge.

[Sponger UI cartridge configuration panel]

The 'Options' field takes entries in the form of key-value pairs. The required options and/or API keys will vary from cartridge to cartridge. These are detailed in the table opposite. Some cartridges may function without authorization credentials, but the amount of data extracted will be limited as a consequence. Mandatory configuration options are marked with an asterisk.

Cartridge Prerequisites

Options which must be configured for each cartridge prior to use are listed below.

Mandatory options are marked *

CartridgeRequired OptionsSample URIResource DescriptionLinked Data Graph
Amazon API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
BestBuy API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Bing   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Bugzillas   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
CNET API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
CrunchBase   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Delicious   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Digg   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Discogs php plugin, DBpedia Extractor example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Disqus V2 API Key. See details example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
DOI hslookup plugin; relevant html-, pdf-, xml-, etc., -mappers enabled example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Dublin Core   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
eBay account, API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Evri   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Facebook API Key, secret, persistent-session-id. See details example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Flickr API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Freebase   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Geonames   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
geoURL   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Get Satisfaction   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Google Base   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Google Book   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Google Document   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Google Social Graph   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Google Spreadsheet   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Hoovers   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
ISBN API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
LastFM API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
LibraryThing API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
LSID   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Meetup API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
MusicBrainz   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Ning Metadata   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
OAI   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Open Social   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
OpenLibrary   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
OpenStreetMap   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
oReilly   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Picasa   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Radio Pop   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
relLicense   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Revyu   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Rhapsody   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
SalesForce.com API Key,user login example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
SlideShare API Key, SharedSecret example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
SlideSix   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
SVG   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Tesco   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Tumblr   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
TWFY (theyworkforyou) API Key example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Twitter User Login example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Ustream   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Web Resource CC (Licenses)   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Wikipedia   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
xFolk   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Yahoo! Finance   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Yahoo! SearchMonkey   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Yahoo! Traffic Data   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Yahoo! Weather   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Yelp   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Youtube   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View
Zillow   - example HTML Representation Data Explorer View