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Wandora is a general purpose information extraction, management, and publishing application based on [[Topic Maps]] and [http://java.sun.com/ 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 [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt GNU GPL].
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Wandora is a general purpose information extraction, management, and publishing application based on [[Topic Maps]] and [http://java.sun.com/ 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. Wandora's license is [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt 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|documentation]].
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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 or polyscopic, if you like, information mashups where information from Flickr meets Geonames and Delicious, for example. Information mashup can then be published with Wandora's embedded HTTP server. Addition to default HTML page design you can also use content management systems such as Drupal to publish information in Wandora. Read more at [[Documentation|documentation]].
  
 
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Revision as of 14:51, 24 December 2009

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. 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 or polyscopic, if you like, information mashups where information from Flickr meets Geonames and Delicious, for example. Information mashup can then be published with Wandora's embedded HTTP server. Addition to default HTML page design you can also use content management systems such as Drupal to publish information in Wandora. Read more at documentation.

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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 character.gif wandora.org.

News

December 22, 2009: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010. Quite a shocking to realize first decade of millenium is over.

December 16, 2009: Next Wandora release will be published 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 character.gif 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.

Icon download.gif Download Wandora


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Icon topicmaps.gif Topic Maps


Icon link.gif WWW Services Using Wandora


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