Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose knowledge extraction, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. More precisely Wandora is an open source 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's license is GNU GPL.

Wandora suits well for knowledge mashups. Wandora is capable to extract and convert various open data feeds to Topic Maps format (see image below). Beyond Topic Maps conversion this feature allows Wandora user to aggregate multidimensional knowledge bases where information from Flickr meets Geonames and Delicious, for example. Read more at documentation.

This site, WandoraWiki, is a home of Wandora software application and provides you an access point to the Wandora application and it's documentation. To contribute Topic Maps, Wandora Team has also converted several well known ontologies to Topic Maps format. These converted ontologies; WordNet, OpenCyc, Gene Ontology, Gellish, and Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) are available for download here in WandoraWiki.

Should you require personal Wandora support please use Wandora Forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org.

News

May 20, 2009: Find Wandora a difficult application? No problem. Now you can watch Wandora hands-on-tutorials on wandoratv. First set of tutorial programmes show you how to create, find, and edit topics, create layers and use graph topic panel.

April 8, 2009: We are happy to announce yet another contribution to the collection of publicly available Topic Maps: Topic map conversions of Gellish ontologies.

March 13, 2009: Wandora application packages have been updated today. New release contains numerous bug fixes and some new extractors. See Change log for details.

February 20, 2009: Meet Wandora Team at The Third International Topic Maps Conference where Olli Lyytinen orchestrates a hands-on Wandora Workshop giving you a glimpse of knowledge mashup construction using Wandora Topic Maps editor application. Conference takes place March 18-19, 2009 in Oslo, Norway.

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

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
• Wandora Tv
• Upcoming features

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

• Wandora poster in PDF or GIF formats.
• 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.

• Art Collections of Finnish National Gallery

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