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. WandoraWiki hosts also topic map conversions of WordNet, OpenCyc, Gene Ontology, and Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO). 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

February 6, 2009: Wandora application packages were updated due to an error in SetClasspath.sh described in Wandora forum. This bug fix affects only Mac OS users.

January 30, 2009: New version of Wandora application has been published today. New application version is a minor feature release. New features are String similarity search and Revert project for example. See Change log for details.

January 19, 2009: Next Wandora update will be published 2nd of February 2009. See upcoming features for changes.

December 12, 2008: Wandora Team wishes everybody Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. To make the season perfect grab Wandora application and create snowflake topic maps with L-system generator like we. This beautiful snowflake is also available as Wandora project file.

December 10, 2008: Minor feature release! New Wandora has 9 different GeoNames extractors including search, near-by, hierarchy, weather, and country-info. New Wandora is also capable to convert various Ovi shared media feeds, and general Atom news feeds to topic maps. New release contains also L-system generator to construct topic map graphs. See Change log for details.

See also past news. If you are interested in general Topic Maps related news see also Topic Maps Snippets.

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

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

• 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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• Freshmeat
• SourceForge.net
• Softpedia (WIN)
• Softpedia (Linux)