Delicious extractors

Wandora supports extracting information from del.icio.us into a topic map. There are two ways to extract information:

• The URL extractors look up URLs from topics in context and try to find posts matching those URLs from del.icio.us. If successful, they will add information (description, tags) retrieved from the web api to the topic at hand.
• The post extractors will extract posts with a certain criteria (currently only the most recent posts by specified users) and create topics into the topic map, merging with those topics that have matching subject identifiers.

See also Wandora's Digg extractors.

Del.icio.us example

Next image views an example of del.icio.us extracted topic. First, a topic was created in Wandora. New topic was given a base name wandora and a subject identifier http://www.wandora.org/wandora/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page. As you may note, the subject identifier URL is exactly the URL of Wandora wiki site. Created topic was selected and Del.icio.us URL extractor was started. As Del.icio.us contains the URL as a bookmark and it has been tagged, all the tags end up to Wandora as topics and associations. All extracted topics and associations are shown in the image as described associations between tag topics and the wandora topic. Thus Del.icio.us extractor can be used to describe subject identifiers (and locators of course).