Documentation

Revision as of 17:04, 15 March 2009

This page contains Wandora documentation. Documentation is a work in progress and incomplete. Also note some documentation may be out of date as the application is developed intensely. If you need specific help, leave a note in the discussion forum and we'll resolve your request as soon as possible.

Preparing Wandora

• System requirements
• Download Wandora (build date 2016-05-10)
• Installing Wandora
• Running Wandora

Topic maps

• About topic maps
• Topic maps in Wandora

See also Layers section below.

Basics

This section contains tutorials for topic and association creation, modification, and deletion.

Import and Export

Wandora has been designed to enable easy aggregation of knowledge and features wide range of import and export tools. Wandora is capable to export not just different topic map formats but also N3, HTML, and XML. Wandora's native file format is Wandora project (WPR) which is a collection of XTM topic maps and configuration file within a zip package. Managing of topic maps is easy as Wandora allows the user to copy and paste topics and associations using system clipboard. Usually import tools locate in Wandora's File > Import menu. Export tools locate in Wandora's File > Export menu. To export one layer select menu option in layer context under Export layer. To import into a specific layer select menu option in layer context under Merge to layer.

Extractors

Wandora is great for information mashups. With Wandora you can easily mashup information from various sources. Extractors are specific Wandora tools used to extract topics and associations out of different file formats and sources. Wandora can extract data from MP3 and JPG files for example. To see what extractors your Wandora has installed see File > Extract. To start an extractor just select the extractor name in the menu or use drag and drop extractor. If you don't find the extractor in the menu use Tool manager to add the extractor into the menu. Wandora also contains an add-on for Mozilla Firefox WWW browser. With the add-on you can perform extractions directly in browser.

• Drag and drop extractor
• Firefox plugin to extract directly from Firefox WWW browser and Thunderbird email client.

Different extractors

Generators

Generators are special tools that generate topics and associations algorithmically. Generators help you to construct basic building blocks for your topic maps. Generators also serve as a nice test suite for Wandora and topic maps in general. Generators locate in Wandora's File > Generate menu. Available generators are

• Random graph generator
• Fully connected graph generator
• Tree graph generator
• Linear list graph generator
• Finite group graph generator
• Platonic solid graph generator
• Hypercube graph generator
• Tiling graph generator (square, triangular, and hexagonal tilings)
• Edge generator
• L-system generator

Schema

Schema is a collection of specific topics and associations that Wandora uses to construct the user interface of association editor, occurrence editor and topic name panel. Schema eases many topic map operations such as association and occurrence construction. Schema also defines the language support of Wandora application.

• Schema to ease association and text data creation and modification
• How to add another variant name language
• How to add another variant name type

Layers

Wandora supports layered topic maps. Layered topic map contains one or more topic maps stacked into an ordered array. This separation of merged topic maps allows flexible management of topic maps and enables the birth of public knowledge repositories used as a component of other Wandora based knowledge bases. Layer specific options locate in Layers menu.

Analyzing Topic Maps

Generally these tools locate in Layers > Statistics menu. As an exception SOM classifier is found in association table menu.

• Topic map info
• Topic map connection statistics
• Topic map diameter
• Clustering coefficient of topic map
• SOM classifier

Tools and tool manager

Almost every feature in Wandora is implemented with a tool. Tool packs certain Wandora functionality into a single software component. Wandora's user may customize the available tool set and even add third party tools to Wandora.

• Tool manager
• Available tools
• Writing your own tool
• Installing your own tool
• Tool locks

Other

• Wandora options
• Wandora Javadocs
• Creating custom topic trees

Wandora Server

• Embedded HTTP server
• Setting up Wandora Piccolo server (including the web service interface).
• Wandora Web Service
• Piccolo XML processor.