Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose information extraction, aggregation, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. 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 is well suited for constructing information mashups and is capable of extracting and converting a wide range of open data feeds to Topic Map formats (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 web site, WandoraWiki, is a home of Wandora software application and provides you Wandora's download page and Wandora's documentation. Discussion forum is also available. To contribute Topic Maps community, Wandora Team has 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 at Topic Map Library.

To contact developers of the Wandora, please use Wandora Forum or contact us as described in FAQ.

News

2011-12-07: Wandora software packages have been updated to fix a bug in Wandora's file dialog. Wandora team would like to apologize the trouble and thank all bug reports! At least some people are really using the software. As this was quite a rapid fix, we didn't remove features under development and the release adds some new features to Wandora. These features are XTM server module, JTM server module, GRAPHML server module, RDF server module, and Screen cast server module. Also, user can now upload and download resource data occurrences to/from Pastebin online clipboard service.

2011-11-30: New Wandora version released today! See Change log. New features include Processing topic panel, R topic panel, Treemap topic panel, Twitter extractor and Oma kaupunki extractor.

2011-11-03: Next Wandora application version will be released Wednesday 30th of November. Release features several interesting additions, such as Processing topic panel.

2011-09-20: Wandora tutorial video reviewing SPARQL extractor, R console and Helsinki Region Infoshare (HRI) data: http://vimeo.com/29039548 . Video is also available on wandoratv.

See also past news. If you are interested in Topic Maps and information technology related news see Planet Topic Maps and Planet RDF.

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

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

• 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.

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• Topic Maps Lab
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