Features
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Brief introduction to the most interesting features of Wandora: | Brief introduction to the most interesting features of Wandora: | ||
| + | * Graphical user interface | ||
| + | ** Topic map browser | ||
| + | ** Extensive collection of tools to manipulate topics and associations | ||
* Layered representation of knowledge | * Layered representation of knowledge | ||
| + | ** Contruct the knowledge using several different layers, each containing only part of the knowledge | ||
** You can view only parts of data and hide parts that don't intrest you | ** You can view only parts of data and hide parts that don't intrest you | ||
| − | ** Automatic merging of different data sources | + | ** Automatic merging of different and even distributed data sources |
** Protect some parts of topic map by allowing only read access | ** Protect some parts of topic map by allowing only read access | ||
* Several data storage options | * Several data storage options | ||
** Memory based topic map for very fast processing of relatively small topic maps | ** Memory based topic map for very fast processing of relatively small topic maps | ||
** Relational database storage makes it possible to use topic maps of virtually unlimited size | ** Relational database storage makes it possible to use topic maps of virtually unlimited size | ||
| + | ** Relational database storage enables remote third party topic maps as a layer of your layer stack | ||
* Import data in several formats | * Import data in several formats | ||
** Topic maps in XTM and LTM formats | ** Topic maps in XTM and LTM formats | ||
** RDF data in RDF(S) and N3 formats | ** RDF data in RDF(S) and N3 formats | ||
| + | ** Any valid XML document can be transformed to XTM with proper XSL | ||
** Generic SQL database import | ** Generic SQL database import | ||
| + | ** Clipboard import and export of topics and associations | ||
* Read metadata from different file types | * Read metadata from different file types | ||
** MP3 ID3 metadata | ** MP3 ID3 metadata | ||
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** PDF metadata | ** PDF metadata | ||
** Email metadata | ** Email metadata | ||
| − | * Tools to publish knowledge as | + | ** Extract data from file system |
| + | ** Extract data from HTML pages | ||
| + | * Tools to publish knowledge | ||
| + | ** Export the topic map as a collection of static HTML pages | ||
| + | ** Set up a dynamic WWW site based on the topic map with Wandora-Piccolo combination | ||
| + | ** Download and manage subject locator files | ||
* Plugin architecture makes it easy to add custom functionality | * Plugin architecture makes it easy to add custom functionality | ||
** Tools that process topic map, for example cleaning or reconstructing data | ** Tools that process topic map, for example cleaning or reconstructing data | ||
Revision as of 13:45, 1 November 2006
Brief introduction to the most interesting features of Wandora:
- Graphical user interface
- Topic map browser
- Extensive collection of tools to manipulate topics and associations
- Layered representation of knowledge
- Contruct the knowledge using several different layers, each containing only part of the knowledge
- You can view only parts of data and hide parts that don't intrest you
- Automatic merging of different and even distributed data sources
- Protect some parts of topic map by allowing only read access
- Several data storage options
- Memory based topic map for very fast processing of relatively small topic maps
- Relational database storage makes it possible to use topic maps of virtually unlimited size
- Relational database storage enables remote third party topic maps as a layer of your layer stack
- Import data in several formats
- Topic maps in XTM and LTM formats
- RDF data in RDF(S) and N3 formats
- Any valid XML document can be transformed to XTM with proper XSL
- Generic SQL database import
- Clipboard import and export of topics and associations
- Read metadata from different file types
- MP3 ID3 metadata
- Adobe Photoshop JPEG metadata
- PDF metadata
- Email metadata
- Extract data from file system
- Extract data from HTML pages
- Tools to publish knowledge
- Export the topic map as a collection of static HTML pages
- Set up a dynamic WWW site based on the topic map with Wandora-Piccolo combination
- Download and manage subject locator files
- Plugin architecture makes it easy to add custom functionality
- Tools that process topic map, for example cleaning or reconstructing data
- Importing data in different formats, for example from existing relational database
- Exporting data in different formats
- Reading and automatic processing of metadata from a collection of files
- Customized ways to represent the data in the topic map
- Custom publishing methods
