Features

Revision as of 19:19, 8 March 2007

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
- Construct 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 easy usage of remote third party topic maps
Import data in several formats
Read metadata from different file types
Tools to publish knowledge
- Export the topic map as a collection of static HTML pages
- Create and export Lucene search index from any topic map
- 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

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 ** [[HTML link extractor|Convert HTML site structure to a topic map]]
 ** [[IMDB extractor|Convert IMDB datafiles to a topic map]]
+** [[FreeDB extractor|Convert freedb database entries to a topic map]]
 * Tools to publish knowledge
 ** [[Exporting WWW site|Export the topic map as a collection of static HTML pages]]