Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose information extraction, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. More precisely Wandora is an open source desktop 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, embedded server, and open plug-in architecture. You can also publish information in Wandora with content management systems such as Drupal. Wandora's license is GNU GPL.

Wandora suits well for information 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 information mashups 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

December 16, 2009: Next Wandora release publication takes place 4th of January 2010. See Upcoming features for application changes. The upcoming features list is updated frequently as our view clears.

November 23, 2009: New Wandora application release has been published today. New version fixes custom topic tree bug, features URL occurrence download and check, and accepts URLs in XML/XSL imports.

November 14, 2009: Thank you for all Wandora Tutorial participants at TMRA'09. It was a pleasant occasion for Wandora Team. If a question popped to your mind during the tutorial but never got answered or you have other concerns using Wandora, please use Wandora forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org. Also, we'll release a bug-fix for Wandora during next few weeks fixing the NullPointerException faced during the tutorial. Bug and it's cause is described in detail in wiki page Open bugs.

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)

• Art Collections of Finnish National Gallery

• Freshmeat
• SourceForge.net
• Softpedia (WIN)
• Softpedia (Linux)
• Topic Maps Tools
• Topic Maps Lab
• Delicious

• 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.