Features

Revision as of 20:43, 22 January 2008

Brief introduction to the most interesting features of Wandora:

• Desktop Application
  • Fast and reliable
  • Requires Java
• Graphical user interface
  • Web browser like look & feel - Topic map browser
  • Graph visualizations of topic maps
  • Extensive collection of tools to manipulate topics and associations
• Layered representation of knowledge
  • Construct the knowledge using several different layers, each containing only part of the knowledge
  • You can view only parts of data and hide parts that don't intrest you
  • Automatic merging of different and even distributed data sources
  • Protect some parts of topic map by allowing only read access
• Several data storage options
  • Memory based topic map for very fast processing of relatively small topic maps
  • Relational database storage makes it possible to use topic maps of virtually unlimited size
  • Relational database storage enables easy usage of remote third party topic maps
• Import data in several formats
  • Imports topic maps in XTM and LTM formats
  • Imports RDF data in RDF(S) and N3 formats
  • Imports OBO flat file v1.2 format ontologies such as The Gene Ontology
  • Imports any valid XML document with proper XSL converting the XML to XTM
  • Converts and imports any SQL database to a topic map
  • Clipboard import and export of topics and associations
• Extract topic maps from various different sources
  • Convert MP3 ID3 metadata to a topic map
  • Convert JPEG metadata to a topic map
  • Convert PDF metadata to a topic map
  • Convert emails and email repositories to a topic map
  • Convert file system structures to a topic map
  • Convert HTML site structure to a topic map
  • Convert IMDB datafiles to a topic map
  • Convert freedb database entries to a topic map
  • Convert MediaWiki pages to a topic map
  • Convert Last.fm XML feeds to a topic map
  • Convert BibTeX files to a topic map
  • Convert simple HTML tables to topic map associations: HTML property table extractor & HTML association table extractor
  • Convert simple HTML lists to topic maps: HTML Superclass-Subclass List Extractor & HTML Instance List Extractor
  • Convert simple text documents to topic map occurrences
  • Convert RSS 2.0 feeds to topic maps
  • Convert geo microformat snippets to topic maps
  • Convert adr microformat snippets to topic maps
  • Convert hcalendar microformat snippets to topic maps
  • Convert hcard microformat snippets to topic maps
• Analyze topic maps
  • Clustering coefficient for any topic set including average clustering coefficient of a topic map.
  • Topic map diameter and average path length.
  • Topic map connection count and distribution (Topic map degree distribution).
• Tools to publish knowledge
  • Export the topic map as a collection of static HTML pages
  • Create and export Lucene search index from any topic map
  • Set up a dynamic WWW site based on the topic map with Wandora-Piccolo combination
  • Download and manage subject locator files
  • Build your own topic map application using Wandora's SOAP Web Service
• Generate simple topic map graphs.
  • Random graph generator
  • Fully connected graph generator
  • Tree graph generator
  • Linear list graph generator
  • Finite group graph generator
  • Platonic solid graph generator
• Plugin architecture makes it easy to add custom functionality
  • Tools that process topic map, for example cleaning or reconstructing data
  • Importing data in different formats, for example from existing relational database
  • Exporting data in different formats
  • Reading and automatic processing of metadata from a collection of files
  • Customized ways to represent the data in the topic map
  • Custom publishing methods