Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose knowledge extraction, management, and publishing environment based on Topic Maps. More precisely Wandora is an open source Java application to build and manage topic maps. Wandora has graphical user interface, layered presentation of knowledge, several data storage options, rich data extraction, import and export capabilities, and open plug-in architecture. Wandora includes also embedded HTTP server enabling dynamic publication of topic maps. Wandora suits well for rapid ontology construction and knowledge mashups. Wandora's license is GNU GPL.

This site, WandoraWiki, is a home of Wandora software application and provides you an access point to the Wandora application and it's documentation. Should you require personal Wandora support please use Wandora Forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org.

Keywords: topic maps, semantic web, editor, software, Java, XTM, LTM, RDF(S), OBO flat file format, microformats, metadata, data mining, data extraction, web scraping

News

September 4, 2008: Wandora team has converted Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) to Topic Maps format.

August 28, 2008: Greetings! Ok, it's not 31st today but we'll release the new Wandora version anyway. You are welcome. New features have been listed here.

August 4, 2008: Wandora team is back in business. Expect next Wandora update to be released 31st August. Update contains at least OpenCyc Web API extractor, OpenCalais extractor, Firefox plugin to ease Web extractions, preview panel for videos, and last but not least GraphXML export.

July 15, 2008: Summer surprise: Topic map conversion of OpenCyc!

June 29, 2008: Have a Nice Summer! Wandora team is on summer vacation in July. We expect to get next Wandora update published late August and release update feature details in the beginning of August.

May 30, 2008: New application version available. We are happy to announce new Wandora version has been published today. New features include embedded HTTP server, YouTube, Del.icio.us, and Digg extractors. Last.fm and Flickr extractors have also been enhanced! Wandora also introduces two new topic map layer types: Query and Linked topic maps. See Change log for a complete list of changes.

See also past news...

• Change log
• Open bugs
• Download (build date 2016-05-10)
• License

• Features
• General FAQ
• Documentation
• FAQ for Wandora user
• Wandora Forum

• WordNet
• Gene Ontology
• OpenCyc
• Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO)

• Kivelä A.: OBO-ontologioiden kuvaaminen Topic Map-muotoon. MSc Theses, 2008. (in Finnish). (English Abstract: Converting OBO ontologies to Topic Maps).
• Lyytinen O.: Semanttisen webin tekniikoiden soveltaminen Wikisovelluksissa. MSc Theses, 2008. (in Finnish)
• Kivelä A.: Topic Maps, Wandora ja kourallinen julkaisuprojekteja (in Finnish). Presentation held in XML Finland meeting November 14th, 2007.
• Lyytinen O.: Building Internet Services with Layered Topic Maps. Presentation held in The Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2006), 2006-10-26.
• Kivelä A., Lyytinen O.: Topic Map Aided Publishing – A Case Study of Assembly Media Archive. Web Intelligence. STeP 2004 - The 11th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference Proceedings - Vol. 2, 2004.

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