General FAQ
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What is Wandora?
Wandora is a software application used to build, edit and publish Topic Maps.
What can I do with the Wandora
With Wandora you can
- Edit topic maps
- Make file transformation: XML (with XSL), XTM, LTM, N3 and RDF(S).
- Extract metadata from JPG, MP3, PDF and DOC files.
- Extract data from MBOX email repositories
- Convert SQL database to a topic map
- Convert IMDB data to a topic map
- Publish topic map as a WWW site
More generally Wandora suits well for
- mining metadata from documents
- storing data and knowledge
- content and document management
- knowledge aggregating and publishing
As these application areas sound very wide you may want to see also use-cases and real-life projects for implementation ideas.
What I am allowed to do with Wandora
Grip Studios Interactive, the copyright holder and creator of Wandora grants you a personal and non-commercial license to use Wandora. You can use Wandora in your personal projects if you are not trying to earn money.
We strongly encourage you to contact Grip Studios Interactive (office@gripstudios.com) if you are planning commercial usage of Wandora. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message.
What is required to use Wandora software?
You need a computer suitable for Wandora, Java Run Time Environment (JRE) 5.0 and some third party libraries. See system requirements to decide whether you have a suitable computer. See download section to ensure you have all the required JAR libraries.
Can I get the source code of Wandora?
Source code of Wandora is not public at the moment and we have not enclosed it to the software package. Javadocs of the Wandora are available at [1]
I found a bug in the Wandora
We appreciate your bug reports. Please leave a note about the bug at the Forum or Open bugs or email it to us office@gripstudios.com. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message.
Wandora is an ongoing project and definately has bugs and some features of the software are quite unfinished.
Who are you guys?
Grip Studios Interactive is a small Finnish software company specialized in challenging internet applications. You may contact as with office@gripstudios.com. To ensure your mail not being trashed by our spam filter use keyword [WANDORA] in the title of your email message.
People behind the Wandora are Aki Kivelä and Olli Lyytinen. Wandora's history dates back to 2000 and current version of Wandora owes a great deal to Pasi Hytönen and Marko Wallgren. Pasi Hytönen invented the name Wandora and was part of second generation Wandora team. Marko Wallgren participated the initial Wandora team and was the man behind Kiasmart, the first application of long line of Wandora products.
