Wandora

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 wide range of 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. Wandora's embedded HTTP server enables easy mashup publication. Addition to default HTML page service, Wandora user can publish information with content management systems such as Drupal and Joomla. Read more at documentation.

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. See right column, section Topic Maps.

Should you require support or just want to contact Wandora Team, please use Wandora Forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org.

News

February 26, 2010: Find our TMRA 2009 workshop Semantic Mashups with Wandora presentation on SlideShare. The example data set is available for brave investigators.

January 4, 2010: Happy New Year! New Wandora version has been released today! This is a minor feature release containing Wandora-Joomla bridge, Bing and Big Huge Thesaurus extractors, and adjacency/incidence matrix graph import. See change log for more details.

During the last days of 2009 the page view counter of Wandora Wiki's main page (this page) hit 100,000 views! At the same time there have been a total of 937,542 page views, and 6,164 page edits since the Wandora Wiki was setup. Wandora Team would like to thank you all Wandora Wiki viewers.

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

See also past news. If you are interested in general Topic Maps related news see also Planet Topic Maps.

• Change log
• Open bugs
• Download (build date 2016-05-10)
• License

• Features
• General FAQ
• Documentation
• FAQ for Wandora user
• Wandora Forum
• Wandora Tv
• Upcoming features

• Gellish
• WordNet
• Gene Ontology
• OpenCyc
• Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO)

• Art Collections of Finnish National Gallery

• Freshmeat
• SourceForge.net
• Softpedia (WIN)
• Softpedia (Linux)
• Topic Maps Tools
• Topic Maps Lab
• Delicious

• Our TMRA 2009 workshop presentation Semantic Mashups with Wandora. The example data set is available for brave investigators.
• Wandora poster in PDF or GIF formats.
• Kivelä A.: OBO-ontologioiden kuvaaminen Topic Map-muotoon. MSc Theses, 2008. (in Finnish). (English Abstract: Converting OBO ontologies to Topic Maps).
• Lyytinen O.: Semanttisen webin tekniikoiden soveltaminen Wikisovelluksissa. MSc Theses, 2008. (in Finnish)
• Kivelä A.: Topic Maps, Wandora ja kourallinen julkaisuprojekteja (in Finnish). Presentation held in XML Finland meeting November 14th, 2007.
• Lyytinen O.: Building Internet Services with Layered Topic Maps. Presentation held in The Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference (STeP 2006), 2006-10-26.
• Kivelä A., Lyytinen O.: Topic Map Aided Publishing – A Case Study of Assembly Media Archive. Web Intelligence. STeP 2004 - The 11th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference Proceedings - Vol. 2, 2004.