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 desktop 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. 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, Gellish, 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 August 26, 2009: Wandora Team is happy to announce yet another Wandora release. New version contains two important bug fixes, Wandora specific and non-standard query language interface, customizable buttons, experimental MusicBrainz extractor, enhanced drag'n'drop feature and numerous smaller changes. Wandora's browser plug-in has also been updated to work with Firefox 3.5. See Change log for details. August 5, 2009: We are releasing next Wandora version 26th of August 2009. New version contains two important bug fixes: Neither file dialog nor topic tree causes application halts any more. Addition to bug fixes new version features a query language interface and customizable buttons. June 18, 2009: Wandora Team is heading to enjoy Finnish mid-summer. We wish everybody sunny and cheerful summer. We'll get back to the desk in August. Expect next Wandora version to be released at the end of August. May 25, 2009: New version of Wandora application has been released today. New release contains JTM (JSON Topic Maps) support, Gellish ontology extractor, and Subj3ct record extractor. Release fixes right mouse button on Macs and has been heavily refactored at the code level. See Change log for details. May 20, 2009: Find Wandora a difficult application? No problem. Now you can watch Wandora hands-on-tutorials on wandoratv. First set of tutorial programmes show you how to create, find, and edit topics, create layers and use graph topic panel. 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. 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 Wandora Tv Upcoming features Topic Maps Gellish WordNet Gene Ontology OpenCyc Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) WWW Services Using Wandora Art Collections of Finnish National Gallery Wandora at Freshmeat SourceForge.net Softpedia (WIN) Softpedia (Linux) Topic Maps Tools Topic Maps Lab Technorati Delicious Topincs Misc Documents and Papers Wandora poster in PDF or GIF formats. 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.