Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose information extraction, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java Swing. Wandora has graphical user interface, layered presentation of knowledge, several data storage options, huge collection of data extraction, import and export options, embedded server, and open plug-in architecture. Wandora is a FOSS application with GNU GPL license.

Wandora suits well for rapid ontology construction and 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 information mashups where information from Flickr interleaves with information from GeoNames and YouTube, for example. Wandora's embedded HTTP server enables easy mashup publication. Addition to default HTML page service, Wandora user can easily set up a web service and publish Wandora content with CMSs 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 as described in FAQ.

News

Mar 12, 2011: Next Wandora version is released 18th of March. Version features GATE Annie and Stanford Named Entity Recognizer integration.

Feb 25, 2011: A tiny bug fix release of Wandora has been published today. The bug was related to Wandora's Facebook extractor.

Feb 18, 2011: Wandora application has been updated today. New release includes interesting new features such as Any23 library integration, Zemanta extractor and Google translate API integration. Also, browser extractor interface has been refactored adding nearly all extractors in Wandora a capability to perform browser extractions. See Change log for additional information.

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

• 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)

• TMRA 2010 tutorial slides: Converting information to Topic Maps using Wandora.
• TMRA 2009 workshop presentation Semantic Mashups with Wandora. Example data set is available for brave experimenters.
• 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.

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