Wandora

Wandora is a general purpose information 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, embedded server, and open plug-in architecture. Wandora's license is GNU GPL. Wandora suits well for information mashups. Wandora is capable to extract and convert wide range of open data feeds to Topic Maps format (see image below). Beyond Topic Maps conversion this feature allows Wandora user to aggregate multidimensional or polyscopic, if you like, information mashups where information from Flickr meets Geonames and Delicious, for example. Information mashup can then be published with Wandora's embedded HTTP server. Addition to default HTML page service you can also use content management systems such as Drupal to publish information in Wandora. 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. See right column, section Topic Maps. Should you require support or just want to contact Wandora Team, please use Wandora Forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org. News January 4, 2010: Happy New Year! New Wandora version has been released today! This is a minor feature release containing Wandora-Joomla bridge example, Bing and Big Huge Thesaurus extractors, and adjacency/incidence matrix graph import. See change log for more details. During the last days of 2009 the page view counter of Wandora Wiki's main page (this page) hit 100,000 views! As a contrast there have been a total of 937,542 page views, and 6,164 page edits since the wiki was setup. Wandora Team would like to thank you all Wandora Wiki viewers. December 22, 2009: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010. Quite a shocking to realize first decade of millenium is over. December 16, 2009: Next Wandora release will be published 4th of January 2010. See Upcoming features for application changes. The upcoming features list is updated frequently as our view clears. November 23, 2009: New Wandora application release has been published today. New version fixes custom topic tree bug, features URL occurrence download and check, and accepts URLs in XML/XSL imports. November 14, 2009: Thank you for all Wandora Tutorial participants at TMRA'09. It was a pleasant occasion for Wandora Team. If a question popped to your mind during the tutorial but never got answered or you have other concerns using Wandora, please use Wandora forum or contact us directly at support wandora.org. Also, we'll release a bug-fix for Wandora during next few weeks fixing the NullPointerException faced during the tutorial. Bug and it's cause is described in detail in wiki page Open bugs. 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 Delicious 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.