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. Wandora 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 a HTML page service, Wandora features server modules for several other visualization and data formats. This website, WandoraWiki, is a home of Wandora software application. 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 application, please use Wandora Forum or contact us as described in FAQ. News 2012-01-03: Wandora's Firefox and Thunderbird plugin has been updated and works now on Firefox 9. Download updated plugin here. Notice also that the plugin in Wandora application distribution packages has NOT been updated yet. 2011-12-21: Season's greetings from all of us at Wandora Team! 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 topic map service module, JTM topic map service module, GRAPHML service module, RDF service module, and Screencast service 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. See also past news. If you are interested in Topic Maps and information technology related news see Planet Topic Maps and Planet RDF.

Download Wandora Change log Download (build date 2016-05-10) License Wandora documentation Features Documentation Open bugs General FAQ FAQ for Wandora user Wandora Forum Wandora Tv Upcoming features Misc documents and papers 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. You can find Wandora also at Twitter Freecode SourceForge.net Softpedia Topic Maps Lab Delicious