Features

Revision as of 12:46, 1 November 2006

Brief introduction to the most interesting features of Wandora:

• Graphical user interface
  • Topic map browser
  • Extensive collection of tools to manipulate topics and associations
• Layered representation of knowledge
  • Contruct the knowledge using several different layers, each containing only part of the knowledge
  • You can view only parts of data and hide parts that don't intrest you
  • Automatic merging of different and even distributed data sources
  • Protect some parts of topic map by allowing only read access
• Several data storage options
  • Memory based topic map for very fast processing of relatively small topic maps
  • Relational database storage makes it possible to use topic maps of virtually unlimited size
  • Relational database storage enables easy usage of remote third party topic maps
• Import data in several formats
  • Topic maps in XTM and LTM formats
  • RDF data in RDF(S) and N3 formats
  • Any valid XML document can be transformed to XTM with proper XSL
  • Generic SQL database import
  • Clipboard import and export of topics and associations
• Read metadata from different file types
  • MP3 ID3 metadata
  • Adobe Photoshop JPEG metadata
  • PDF metadata
  • Email metadata
  • Extract data from file system
  • Extract data from HTML pages
• Tools to publish knowledge
  • Export the topic map as a collection of static HTML pages
  • Set up a dynamic WWW site based on the topic map with Wandora-Piccolo combination
  • Download and manage subject locator files
• Plugin architecture makes it easy to add custom functionality
  • Tools that process topic map, for example cleaning or reconstructing data
  • Importing data in different formats, for example from existing relational database
  • Exporting data in different formats
  • Reading and automatic processing of metadata from a collection of files
  • Customized ways to represent the data in the topic map
  • Custom publishing methods