General FAQ

Revision as of 20:30, 23 November 2007

This FAQ answers the general Wandora questions. There also exists separate FAQ for Wandora user.

What is Wandora?

Wandora is a software application used to build, edit and publish Topic Maps. The application has two software components:

• Wandora is a desktop application used to build and edit topic maps.
• Wandora-Piccolo is a server application used to publish topic maps.

What can I do with the Wandora

With Wandora you can

• Create and edit topic maps
• Make file transformation: XML (with XSL), XTM, LTM, N3 and RDF(S).
• Extract data from various file formats and data repositories.
• Publish topic map as static or dynamic WWW site

More generally Wandora suits well for

• mining metadata from documents
• storing data and knowledge
• content and document management
• knowledge aggregating and publishing
• ontology creation and management

See features for more complete list of Wandora's capabilities. As listed application areas sound very wide you may want to see also real-life projects for implementation ideas.

What I am allowed to do with Wandora

Grip Studios Interactive, the copyright holder and creator of Wandora grants you a personal and non-commercial license to use Wandora. You can use Wandora in your personal projects if you are not trying to earn money.

We strongly encourage you to contact Grip Studios Interactive (office gripstudios.com) if you are planning commercial or non-personal usage of Wandora. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message.

What do I need to use Wandora?

You need a computer suitable for Wandora, Java Run Time Environment (JRE) 6.0, the Wandora application, and some third party libraries. See system requirements to decide whether you have a suitable computer. See download section to download Wandora application and to ensure you have all the required JAR libraries.

Can I get the source code of Wandora?

Source code of Wandora is not public at the moment. However, Javadocs of the Wandora are available at [1]

Can I get support for Wandora?

At the moment we are able to give you modest support. Please write your support request at Wandora Forum.

You may also contact us directly with support wandora.org. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message. Support policy is updated frequently depending on the number of open support requests and our general project status.

Is there a discussion forum for Wandora

Yes, discussion forum is avalable here.

I found a bug in the Wandora

We appreciate your bug reports. Please leave a note about the bug at the Wandora Forum or email it to us support wandora.org. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message.

Wandora is an ongoing project and definetely has bugs and some features are unfinished.

Who are you guys?

Grip Studios Interactive is a small Finnish software company specialized in challenging internet applications. You may contact as with office gripstudios.com. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message.

People behind the Wandora are Aki Kivelä and Olli Lyytinen. Wandora's history dates back to 2000 and current version of Wandora owes a great deal to Pasi Hytönen and Marko Wallgren. Pasi Hytönen was part of second generation Wandora team. Marko Wallgren participated the initial Wandora team and was the man behind Kiasmart, the first application of long line of Wandora products.

Our contact address is

Grip Studios Interactive Oy
Kristianinkatu 15
FIN-00170 Helsinki
Finland

Visit us virtually with Google. Our WWW site is at [2].