Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose knowledge extraction, management, and publishing environment based on Topic Maps. More precisely Wandora is an open source Java application to build and manage topic maps. Wandora has graphical user interface, layered presentation of knowledge, several data storage options, rich data extraction, import and export capabilities, and open plug-in architecture. Wandora includes also embedded HTTP server enabling dynamic publication of topic maps. Wandora suits well for rapid ontology construction and knowledge mashups. Wandora's license is GNU GPL. For example, Wandora is capable to extract and convert various third party data feeds to Topic Maps format (see image below). This feature allows Wandora user to create knowledge mashups. This site, WandoraWiki, is a home of Wandora software application and provides you an access point to the Wandora application and it's documentation. WandoraWiki hosts also topic map conversions of WordNet, OpenCyc, Gene Ontology, and Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO). Should you require personal Wandora support please use Wandora Forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org. Keywords: topic maps, semantic web, editor, software, Java, XTM, LTM, RDF(S), OBO flat file format, microformats, metadata, data mining, data extraction, web scraping News February 6, 2009: Wandora distribution packages were updated due to an error in SetClasspath.sh described in Wandora forum. This bug fix affects only Mac OS users. See also past news. If you are interested in general Topic Maps related news see also Topic Maps Snippets.

Download Wandora Change log Open bugs Download (build date 2016-05-10) License Wandora Documentation Features General FAQ Documentation FAQ for Wandora user Wandora Forum Upcoming features Topic Maps WordNet Gene Ontology OpenCyc Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) Other Documents and Papers 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. WWW Services Using Wandora Art Collections of Finnish National Gallery Wandora at Freshmeat SourceForge.net Softpedia (WIN) Softpedia (Linux)