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This page contains Wandora tutorials. Tutorials are a work in progress and incomplete. If you need specific help with Wandora leave a note on the discussion page.


Contents

Preparing Wandora

Topic maps

Basics

Import and Export

Wandora has been designed to enable easy aggregation of knowledge and features wide range of import and extract tools. Wandora is capable to export not just different topic map formats but also N3, HTML, and XML. Wandora's native file format is Wandora project (WPR). Managing of topic maps is easy as Wandora allows the user to copy and paste topics and associations using system clipboard.

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Extractors

Wandora is great for information mashups. With Wandora you can easily mashup information from various sources. Extractors are specific Wandora tools used to extract topics and associations out of different file formats and sources. Wandora can extract data from MP3 and JPG files for example. To see what extractors your Wandora has installed see File > Extract. To start an extractor just select the extractor name in the menu or use drag and drop extractor.

Generators

Generators are special tools that generate topics and associations algorithmically. Generators help you to construct basic building block for your ontology or simply topic map. Avalailable generators are

Schema

Schema is a collection of specific topics and associations that Wandora uses to construct the user interface of association editor, occurrence editor and topic name panel. Schema eases many topic map operations such as association and occurrence construction. Schema also defines the language support of Wandora application.

Layers

Wandora supports layered topic maps. Layered topic map contains one or more topic maps stacked into an ordered array. This separation of merged topic maps allows flexible management of topic maps and enables the birth of public knowledge repositories used as a component of other Wandora based knowledge bases.

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Analyzing Topic Maps

Tools and tool manager

Almost every feature in Wandora is implemented with a tool. Tool packs certain Wandora functionality into a single software component. Wandora's user may customize the available tool set and even add third party tools to Wandora.

Other

Wandora Server

Personal tools