Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose knowledge extraction, management, and publishing application based on Topic Maps and Java. More precisely Wandora is an open source 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's license is GNU GPL. Wandora suits well for knowledge mashups. For example, Wandora is capable to extract and convert various open data feeds to Topic Maps format (see image below). Beyond Topic Maps conversion this feature allows Wandora user to aggregate multidimensional knowledge bases where information from Flickr meets Geonames and Delicious, for example. Read more at documentation. This site, WandoraWiki, is a home of Wandora software application and provides you an access point to the Wandora application and it's documentation. To contribute Topic Maps, Wandora Team has also converted several well known ontologies to Topic Maps format. These converted ontologies; WordNet, OpenCyc, Gene Ontology, and Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) are available for download here in WandoraWiki. Should you require personal Wandora support please use Wandora Forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org. News April 8, 2009: We are happy to announce yet another contribution to the collection of publicly available Topic Maps: Topic map conversions of Gellish ontologies. March 13, 2009: Wandora application packages have been updated today. New release contains numerous bug fixes and some new extractors. See Change log for details. February 20, 2009: Meet Wandora Team at The Third International Topic Maps Conference where Olli Lyytinen orchestrates a hands-on Wandora Workshop giving you a glimpse of knowledge mashup construction using Wandora Topic Maps editor application. Conference takes place March 18-19, 2009 in Oslo, Norway. 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. January 30, 2009: New version of Wandora application has been published today. New application version is a minor feature release. New features are String similarity search and Revert project for example. See Change log for details. 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 Gellish WordNet Gene Ontology OpenCyc Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) Other Documents and Papers Download Wandora Poster in PDF or HIRES GIF. 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)