Documentation

Revision as of 14:24, 23 May 2007

This page contains Wandora tutorials. Tutorials are a work in progress and incomplete. If you need specific help with Wandora leave a note on the discussion page.

Preparing Wandora

• System requirements
• Installing Wandora

Topic maps

• About topic maps
• Topic maps in Wandora

Basics

• Quickstart
• How to open and modify topic
• Creating new topic
• Working with topic tables
• Working with topic trees
• Creating custom topic trees
• Topic shortcuts
• Topic panels

Import and Export

Wandora has been designed to enable easy aggregation of knowledge and features wide range of import and extract 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). Managing of topic maps is easy as Wandora allows the user to copy and paste topics and associations using system clipboard.

• How to save and load project
• How to import existing topic map to Wandora
• How to export topic map in Wandora
• Transferring data with clipboard
• Importing RDF(S)
• Importing XML with XSL
• Generic SQL database import
• Exporting WWW site
• Lucene search index export

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.

• Drag and drop extractor
• Different extractors
  • MP3 ID3v1 and ID3v2 extractor
  • JPG binary metadata extractor
  • PDF extractor
  • Email extractor
  • File system extractor
  • HTML link extractor
  • IMDB extractor
  • FreeDB extractor
  • Importing SQL database

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.

• Introduction to layered topic maps
• Creating new layers
• Deleting layer
• Layer order and arranging layers
• Merging layers
• Layer distribution vector

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 Server

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