Source components are responsible for the connection to external services.

They are reading and writing data and transforming the data between the external and the CommunityMashup data model. All source components are highly configurable for special application purposes.

All Sources

• CleanUp — Intended to be used as gardener in configured data sets. E. g. to remove old items.
• Feed — Provides access to RSS and Atom feeds.
• File — Can be used to load CommunityMashup data serialized as XML from files.
• Gravatar — Adds images from gravatar to person depending on their email address.
• Language Detection — This source offers the detection of the language of contents.
• Mendeley — Provides profiles and publications from mendeley.
• QR Code — Enriches information objects with qr-codes as images containing the links to their web-sites.
• Readability — Enrichment service that adds readable versions of the web site content. As web site objects are always attached to information objects, the created contents will be connected to the information objects.
• Scaled Images — This source service is able to enrich information objects with scaled versions of their images.
• Twitter — Provides access to tweets as well as profiles of connected people of a twitter user.
• Yammer — Source to access data for a yammer network with dedicated support for writing back comments and likes.
• Zemanta — Provides tags, categories and pictures for contents based on a semantic content analysis by zemanta.com.