Past news

Revision as of 12:27, 4 January 2010

This page is a Wandora news archive. Page archives Wandora related news presented at Wiki's front page.

2009-12-16

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.

2009-11-23

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.

2009-11-14

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.

2009-10-30

Wandora's TMRA'09 tutorial version has been published today. New version has many bug fixes and new interesting features such as embedded web service and DBpedia extractor. See Change log for details.

2009-10-27

Topic map conversion of Gene Ontology has been synchronized with current OBO release of Gene Ontology.

2009-10-13

Next Wandora version will be published October 30, 2009. Peek Upcoming features. This release is used during TMRA'09 tutorial also.

2009-10-02

Meet Wandora Team at TMRA 2009 conference where Aki Kivelä stages a Wandora tutorial with title Semantic Mashups with Wandora. In this hands-on tutorial participants are shown how to create and publish multidimensional information mashups with Wandora and open data sources such as GeoNames and YouTube.

2009-08-26

Wandora Team is happy to announce yet another Wandora release. New version contains two important bug fixes, Wandora specific and non-standard query language interface, customizable buttons, experimental MusicBrainz extractor, enhanced drag'n'drop feature and numerous smaller changes. Wandora's browser plug-in has also been updated to work with Firefox 3.5. See Change log for details.

2009-08-05

We are releasing next Wandora version 26th of August 2009. New version contains two important bug fixes: Neither file dialog nor topic tree causes application halts any more. Addition to bug fixes new version features a query language interface and customizable buttons.

2009-06-18

Wandora Team is heading to enjoy Finnish mid-summer. We wish everybody sunny and cheerful summer. We'll get back to the desk in August. Expect next Wandora version to be released at the end of August.

2009-05-25

New version of Wandora application has been released today. New release contains JTM (JSON Topic Maps) support, Gellish ontology extractor, and Subj3ct record extractor. Release fixes right mouse button on Macs and has been heavily refactored at the code level. See Change log for details.

2009-05-20

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.

2009-04-08

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

2009-03-13

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

2009-02-20

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.

2009-02-06

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

2009-01-30

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.

2009-01-19

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

2008-12-12

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.

2008-12-10

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.

2008-10-24

Wandora application was updated today! New application supports XTM 2.0, exports topic maps to SQL clauses, extracts from GeoNames, and generates hyper cube graphs for example. See Change log for details.

2008-09-04

Wandora team has converted Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) to Topic Maps format.

2008-08-28

Greetings! Ok, it's not 31st today but we'll release the new Wandora version anyway. You are welcome. New features have been listed here.

2008-08-04

Wandora team is back in business. Expect next Wandora update to be released 31st August. Update contains at least OpenCyc Web API extractor, OpenCalais extractor, Firefox plugin to ease Web extractions, preview panel for videos, and last but not least GraphXML export.

2008-06-15

Summer surprise: Topic map conversion of OpenCyc!

2008-06-29

Have a Nice Summer! Wandora team is on summer vacation in July. We expect to get next Wandora update published late August and release update feature details in the beginning of August.

2008-05-30

New application version available. We are happy to announce new Wandora version has been published today. New features include embedded HTTP server, YouTube, Del.icio.us, and Digg extractors. Last.fm and Flickr extractors have also been enhanced! Wandora also introduces two new topic map layer types: Query and Linked topic maps. See Change log for a complete list of changes.

2008-04-29

Wandora team is happy to announce new version of Wandora application has been published today! New version introduces several different Flickr extractors, rewritten layer stack implementation, RIS, and VerbOcean extractors, and Graph Modeling Language export for example! See Change log for a complete list of changes.

Wandora team would also like to welcome new Wandora developer, Antti Tuppurainen. Antti's first works were the RIS and Flickr extractors.

2008-03-14

Minor update for Wandora application introducing Topic Map patcher and enhanced compare feature.

2008-03-04

New version of Wandora is available. Wandora's license has changed to GNU GPL. Source code distribution package is available at download page! The class path base of Wandora has changed to org.wandora. New version also introduces Compare topic maps feature!

2008-02-18

Wandora's javadocs updated finally!

Upcoming next: Wandora is going open source! Wandora's license is changing to GNU GPL. We are refactoring the code base at the moment and plan to release next version before 7th of March.

2008-02-13

Wandora application updated! Update introduces programmable Custom topic panel for advanced topic map queries. Update also fixes some bugs found in OBO import.

2008-01-22

New version of Wandora is available now! New version contains many new features including OBO import and OBO export. See change log for a complete list of changes.

2008-01-21

First results of Wandora's upcoming OBO flat file support are available! Download topic map conversion of Gene Ontology here.

2007-12-19

Wandora Team wishes Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008. Next Wandora update will be published by the end of January. Update contains OBO (Open Biological Ontology) import and several microformat extractors.

2007-11-8

Aki Kivelä, one of Wandora authors, gives a presentation Topic Maps, Wandora, and a fistful of publishing projects at XML Finland's Topic Map meeting, November 14th. The presentation is here (in Finnish).

2007-11-5

Yet Another Wandora Update! New version has RSS extractor, enhanced drag and drop features, preview for HTML subject locator, etc. See change log for complete list of changes.

2007-10-17

Update! New Wandora version has been tested on Linux. Now you may run the application also on Linux and Unix systems with enclosed startup scripts.

2007-09-18

Wandora Forum is now open for the community!

2007-08-30

Wandora application updated! New version of Wandora has a graph visualization scheme for topic maps. Read more at Topic panels.

Get familiar with Wandora and meet us at the Third International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications 2007, TMRA'07 as Olli Lyytinen, one of the Wandora authors gives a gentle tutorial An introduction to Wandora covering Wandora's topic map editing and publishing features.

2007-07-31

WordNet topic map updated! Wandora application updated!

2007-07-11

Topic map conversion of WordNet is available here at WandoraWiki.

2007-06-04

Tiny teaser: We are currently working on Graph Topic Panel extending Wandora's topic map visualization and editing features beyond the traditional table based topic panels. Graph Topic Panel is expected to be ready by the end of August 2007.

Wandora software was updated June 4th 2007. New version contains topic map analyzing tools and simple, yet powerful topic map generators. Application's look has also been polished.

2007-05-24

Finnish National Gallery's Collections were today (May 24th 2007) released in Internet. This extensive information repository of Finnish and international art was implemented with Wandora. The site introduces over 33000 artworks, 6000 artists, and 14000 digital images of artworks. More detailed presentation about the Wandora implementation and the project is available at Topic Maps 2007 Conference site.

2007-05-23

Wandora software was updated May 23rd 2007. New version has a SOAP api integrated. With the api it is possible to request topics and associations via WSDL calls. New package has also an example application created with Flash and Actionscript. The sample application implements a simple topic map browser.