Documentation

Revision as of 14:36, 30 April 2008

This page contains Wandora documentation. Documentation is a work in progress and incomplete. Also note some documentation may be out of date as the application is developed intensely. If you need specific help, leave a note in the discussion forum and we'll resolve your request as soon as possible.

Preparing Wandora

System requirements
Download Wandora (build date 2016-05-10)
Installing Wandora
Running Wandora

Topic maps

Basics

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) which is a collection of XTM topic maps and configuration file within a zip package. Managing of topic maps is easy as Wandora allows the user to copy and paste topics and associations using system clipboard.

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. If you don't find the extractor in the menu use Tool manager to add the extractor into the menu.

Drag and drop extractor
Different extractors

Generators

Generators are special tools that generate topics and associations algorithmically. Generators help you to construct basic building blocks for your topic maps. Generators also serve as a nice test suite for Wandora and topic maps in general. Available generators are

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.

Analyzing Topic Maps

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.

Other

Wandora Server

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

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