Alexandre Passant

I've just wrote a Drupal module for SPARCool, which allows to embed SPARCool results in Drupal nodes, so that you can reuse any data from the LOD cloud to enhance your webpages !

It simply works by using the following pattern in your pages [ sparcool | predicate | URI ] (without any space), that is translated to a JSONP callback to the SPARCool service, et voilà ! You can also add a ;l=xx parameter after the property if you want to limit the query to a particular language.

For instance, I can include some bands members in this blog post, from DBPedia:

[sparcool|dbp:currentMembers|http://dbpedia.org/resource/Beastie_Boys]

As well as the abstract of a paper, from the Semantic Web Dog Food:

[sparcool|swrc:abstract|http://data.semanticweb.org/workshop/scripting/2008/paper/12]

Or the list of my last.fm contacts, from DBTune:

[sparcool|foaf:knows|http://dbtune.org/last-fm/terraces]

The Drupal project is hosted at http://drupal.org/project/sparcool, you can get the source via CVS. In addition, I also wrote a tiny JavaScript function (that is used in this module - and requires JQuery if you want to use it separately) that can help to include such results in any page. Finally, SPARCool now relies on prefix.cc to fetch the prefixes.

Have fun with Linked Open Data !

NB: Since the results are included via AJAX when printing the page, you should't get their results in your aggregator or planet websites