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What's new in Wandora 2017-10-12

Feb 20, 2018
  • Till now Wandora has saved a project into a single WPR file. New Wandora release saves a project as separate files into a folder if user selects folder as the saving location. If user selects a file as the saving location, Wandora saves project into a WPR file.
  • Wandora supports Git repositories as Wandora project. Wandora user can clone remote Git repository and push changes back to the remote repository. Git tools locate in menu File > Git. See https://github.com/topic-maps-library/wordnet for an example of a Git repository as the Wandora project. See documentation at Working with Git repositories.
  • Removed some deprecated tools and code.
  • Enhanced Mac OS support.
  • Some minor bug fixes.

New in Wandora 2015-02-03 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • View menu has been restructured. Now the View menu contains a submenu for each open topic panel.
  • Search (topic) panel. Open any number of distinct searches and queries. Use menu option View > New panel > Search.
  • Tree (topic) panel. Open any number of distinct topic trees. Add new tree with menu option View > New panel > Tree.
  • Layer info (topic panel). Keep topic map layer info panel open while you edit the topic map. View layer info with menu option View > New panel > Layer info.
  • Drop extractor (topic panel). Yes, Drag and drop extractor is back. Drop extractor is very handy when you need to build a topic of using local resources such as files.
  • Numerous smaller fixes and enhancements.

New in Wandora 2014-11-24 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • Adding French, German and Spanish as default languages for topic occurrences and names.
  • Enhanced occurrences view in Traditional topic panel.
  • Adding Search (topic) panel.
  • Adding Alchemy Face Detection API extractor.
  • Adding Watson Translation API support.
  • Numerous smaller fixes and enhancements.

New in Wandora 2014-09-25 (Sep 25, 2014)

  • Minor fixes and enhancements in ReKognition face detection extractor.
  • Fixes Flickr extractors.
  • Minor fixes in New York Times extractors
  • Adds ReKognition scenery extractor
  • Adds several Umbel API extractors.

New in Wandora 2014-08-20 (Aug 20, 2014)

  • SameAs service module is part of Wandora's embedded HTTP server and implements an API that can be used to retrieve all subject identifier URIs of a given topic. The service API is compatible with sameas.org (JSON response).
  • Waiana service module is part of Wandora's embedded HTTP server and implements an API that can be used to store and retrieve complete topic maps. The Waiana API is compatible with old Maiana API.
  • Maiana import has been refactored and renamed as Waiana import. It's primary connection point is now local Waiana API instead of Maiana API.
  • Maiana export has been refactored and renamed as Waiana export. Also, it's primary connection point is now local Waiana API instead of Maiana API.
  • Rekognition extractor uses ReKognition Face Detection API and transforms all retrieved detection data into a topic map graph.
  • Alchemy API image keyword extractor uses Alchemy API to tag images. Wandora converts keywords into topics and associates keyword topics with the image topic.
  • Sameas subject expander is a context tool that is used to attach a topic more subject identifiers based on current identifiers. The tool uses sameas.org API. Also, Wandora contains several subject expander tools that use specific substorage of the sameas.org. More over, Wandora features a configurable subject expander that works with Wandora's own SameAs service module.

New in Wandora 2014-06-05 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • Wandora's embedded HTTP server has been rebuilt and uses now the modules framework of Wandora application. All embedded services have been moved to the modules framework. This change should ease the application transfer between Wandora and Tomcat server framework and provides more advanced options for WWW application development.
  • Twitter extractor has been updated to reflect Twitter API changes.
  • Many small enhancements and bugfixes.

New in Wandora 2014-05-13 (May 13, 2014)

  • Fixed a bug in XTM2 parser that removed all subject identifiers starting with a prefix http://wandora.org/si/temp. Same subject identifier prefix is used when Wandora adds default temporary subject identifier to a topic. The bug broke Wandora's user interface and hid some associations and topics.

New in Wandora 2014-05-05 (May 5, 2014)

  • Fixes bugs in selection extractors of embedded WWW browser. Wandora used to calculate selection boundaries wrong and wasn't able to perform selection extractions in the embedded WWW browser.
  • The directory structure extractor, simple HTML list and HTML table extractors now generate more clearer topic maps fragments and links the extraction to the Wandora class. This change hopefully increases the usability of these extractors.

New in Wandora 2013-09-15 (Sep 16, 2013)

  • A set of Excel extractors.
  • A DuckDuckGo extractor.
  • A MediaWiki content extractor.
  • A MediaWiki content exporter.
  • A Reddit extractor.
  • HTML structure extractors have been rewritten.
  • Export graph in Graph topic panel in DOT, GraphML, GraphXML, GML format.
  • An AngularJS based topic map browser extra.
  • Changed Semantic Hacker extractor to TextWise extractor.
  • Fixed Bing extractor.
  • A Palvelukartta API version 2 extractor.
  • A Firefox bookmark file extractor.
  • New Wandora uses Java 7.
  • Numerous smaller enhancements and fixes.

New in Wandora 2013-07-15 (Jul 15, 2013)

  • Improves interoperability between Wandora and R language environment. It is now easier to transfer topic map graphs to R and vice versa.

New in Wandora 2013-06-28 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • New topic panel Sketch grid.
  • Tesseract OCR extractor.
  • Occurrence and subject locator resource Mediawiki uploader.
  • New server modules: D3 association type bubbles and D3 association role bubbles.
  • Numerous smaller enhancements and fixes.

New in Wandora 2013-04-30 (May 1, 2013)

  • Undo and redo all topic map operations. Finally.
  • Updated Twitter, Facebook and Europeana extractors.
  • Numerous fixes and enhancements.

New in Wandora 2013-01-28 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Dockable topic panels allow Wandora user to work simultaneously with several different topic panels.
  • Europeana extractor transforms Europeana API feeds to topic maps.
  • Merge ratio matrix.

New in Wandora 2012-08-31 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Guardian open platform extractor
  • Freebase extractor
  • Graph panel views now occurrences (optional feature).
  • Graph panel filter management is now easier.
  • DOT graph format export.
  • Fixes on LTM import.
  • Disabled some deprecated extractors.
  • D3 layers visualization reveals topic merges between topic map layers.

New in Wandora 2012-06-21 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Tool manager supports now JAR paths. User can now install her own tools to Wandora more easier.
  • User may choose to view topics as subject identifiers, subject locators, English display name or any variant name (addition to default basename).
  • Enhanced timeline visualization module supports now iCal, Atom, Email, New York Times events API, New York Times article API, Oma kaupunki and YouTube extractors (addition to Twitter and RSS extractors)
  • iCal calendar format extractor.
  • Server module featuring a partition visualization based on D3.
  • Server module featuring a tree visualizations based on D3.
  • Server module featuring a word cloud visualization based on D3.
  • Server module featuring a matrix visualization based on D3.
  • Cylinder graph generator
  • Lattice graph generator (square grid graph)
  • New York Times Event API extractor
  • Bug fixes for topic table. Old implementation of the topic table returned wrong selection topics if table was sorted or table's column order was changed.

New in Wandora 2012-04-30 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Template mechanism of Processing topic panel has been changed. Now user writes a complete Processing applet instead of a partial applet. All enclosed sample sketches have been updated to follow this change.
  • Two completely new sample sketches for the Processing topic panel:
  • Sphere3D.sketch implements a navigable graph visualization on a surface of a sphere.
  • Euclidean3D.sketch implements a navigable graph visualization in an euclidean 3D space.
  • Three new server modules for Wandora's embedded server:
  • timeline visualizes RSS and Twitter extractions using Simile timeline.
  • googlemaps visualizes GeoNames, Oma kaupunki and Palvelukartta extractions using GoogleMaps.
  • d3graph visualizes complete topic map as a graph using D3 Javascript library.
  • New York Times Article Search API extractor.

New in Wandora 2012-02-29 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Some server modules didn't include topic map associations in their feeds. These modules XTM topic map service module, JTM topic map service module, GRAPHML service module and RDF service module have been fixed and return now association data too.
  • Default behavior of XTM 2.0 import has interpreted zero length basenames as valid basenames and included these into the topic map. On the other hand XTM 2.0 export interprets no-basenames as zero length basenames. Together these features caused accidental merges (because Wandora merges topics with a same basename). Now XTM 2.0 import feature has been fixed and interprets zero length basename as no-basename.
  • Creating new layer selects now the new layer automatically.
  • Restoring Wandora project file selects the layer which was selected when project was saved.
  • Changing topic's basename in topic tree is possibly by mouse clicking the tree node three times. If topic has no basename topic tree views topic as a subject identifier. Changing the subject identifier in the tree saved changed subject identifier to topic's base name. Now subject identifier change in topic tree changes topic's subject identifier.
  • Delete topics feature has been changed. Now Wandora can remove also all topic map structures that prevent topic deletion. If Wandora finds such topic map structures the application asks user if she would like to remove these structures and then deletes the topic.
  • Duplicate topic feature works now even if the topic doesn't locate in current layer. However, having another layer selected actually stores the duplicate into the selected layer.
  • Split topics features works now even if the topic doesn't locate in current layer. Split parts are always stored into the selected layer.
  • Wandora features a new tool called Associate points in polygon occurrence carrier which takes two topic sets. First topic set has geo-points as occurrences and second topic set has geo-polygons as occurrences. Tool iterates all point-polygon pairs and associates occurrence carrier topics if point is inside polygon. This tools is useful if Wandora user needs to refine geo-occurrences into associations.
  • Wandora features a new tool called Associate nearby point occurrence carriers which creates associations between topics that carry geo-coordinates close enough. This tools is useful if Wandora user needs to refine geo-occurrences into associations.
  • New feature Simple CSV association extractor reads CSV file and transforms it to topics and associations. Each CSV row is transformed to an association and each value to a topic. Association type and role types are predefined topics.
  • Uploading and downloading occurrences to/from Pastebin feature has been extended to cover any topic collection including topic maps (layer context).
  • New feature The Service Map extractor can be used to build a topic map conversion of Helsinki region public services.
  • Log messages have been improved. Miscellaneous UI improvements.

New in Wandora 2011-06-10 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • SPARQL extractor opens a wide range of interesting information sources to topic mappers and mashup creators.
  • JQuery Mobile based topic map browser demonstrates how topic maps can be published for mobile devices.
  • HelMet library data extractor enables Wandora user to build a bibliographical topic map based on Helsinki city library's database.
  • Wandora support now Microsoft Translator. Integration enables translation of variant names and occurrences. See an example.
  • All Wandora Drupal extras have been updated! Now there is a Wandora-Drupal bridge module for Drupal 7 too.
  • AlchemyAPI extractors have a new member. Alchemy sentiment extractor analyzes given text and figures out the attitude in the text.
  • 2011-04-29

New in Wandora 2011-04-29 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Wandora's browser plugin works now with Firefox 4.
  • Traditional topic panel can now view all variant names of a topic.
  • New feature to Transform variant names to topics and associations.
  • Few minor bugs fixed.

New in Wandora 2011-03-18 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • GATE/ANNIE integration
  • Stanford Named Entity Recognizer integration

New in Wandora 2011-02-25 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Fixes a bug related to Wandora's Facebook extractor.

New in Wandora 2011-02-18 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Any23 integration adds Wandora a full featured micro-format extractor. Feature is packed in Any23 extractor in Wandora.
  • Zemanta integration adds Wandora's classifier options. Now Wandora has a tool called Zemanta extractor that is used to classify textual content.
  • Heavy refactoring: AbstractExtractor implements now automatically BrowserPluginExtractor interface. As a consequence all AbstractExtractors are automatically Wandora Firefox plugins and managed with Wandora's Tool manager. BrowserPluginExtractor interface changes a little also. Along with browser extractor interface change we have also changed the behavior of several browser extractors.
  • YouTube extractor has been updated to use the most recent Google client libraries.
  • Google Translate integration to automate variant name and occurrence translations.
  • Wandora user can now change the OpenCalais classifier API key by holding CTRL key pressed while starting the classifier.

New in Wandora 2010-12-17 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Release contains some minor feature enhancements related to Email extractor, Simple document extractor, Simple directory structure extractor, Simple PDF extractor and Last.fm extractors. Enhanced extractors are more robust and generate cleaner topic maps compared to older versions.

New in Wandora 2010-11-22 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Maiana integration enables Wandora user to download topic maps from Maiana, Topic Maps Lab's service to host, explore, and share topic maps. Also, Wandora user can upload topic maps to Maiana.
  • Asset weight is a measure of a topic developed by Petra Haluzová of Department of Informatics and Telecommunication, Czech Technical University, Prague. Asset weight measure is described in detail in her TMRA'10 conference paper Evaluation of Instances Asset in a Topic Maps Ontology. Now Wandora user may calculate asset weights for any selectable topic collection.
  • Yahoo! YQL term extractor is a text classifier used to create topic and associations out of given text, an occurrence for example.
  • Tagthe extractor is a similar text classifier helping Wandora user to extract terms out of given text.
  • Yahoo! BOSS extractor is a search engine extractor using Yahoo's BOSS search service.
  • Changed AlchemyAPI extractors. Now extractors use POST method (instead of GET) while sending a given text to the web service.
  • Now Wandora user can refine a large collection of occurrences by right clicking a topic selection and choosing a context menu option Topic > Occurrences > Refine > .... There is eight different and well-known extractors available for occurrence refinement. Available occurrence refiners include OpenCalais classifier, AlchemyAPI extractors, Yahoo! YQL term extractor and Geonames extractors. The batch refine was developed and used to experiment with Afghanistan War Diary topic map.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in Wandora 2010-08-19 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • MARCXML extractor
  • Facebook Graph extractor
  • Dublin Core XML extractor
  • Wandora Firefox plugin works now on Thunderbird 3.x also.

New in Wandora 2010-04-19 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Export adjacency matrix. This feature exports a text matrix where a matrix cell represents a number of associations between column and row topics. Note that feature doesn't export all topic map structures. It is very lossy. Addition to a whole topic map export, you can export only current topic selection.
  • Export incidence matrix. This feature exports a text matrix where a matrix cell represents a number of row topics playing a role in column association. Note that feature doesn't export all topic map structures. It is very lossy. Addition to a whole topic map export, you can export only current topic selection.
  • Export topic map or selected topics as a GXL graph.
  • Add missing display scope to variant names. This feature is a result of an observation that some topic maps may have valid variant names but variant name scopes contain only language topic. Wandora doesn't view such variant names in Traditional topic panel. This new feature is used to fix such variant names. It adds standard display scope topic to variant names that haven't display nor sort scope topic.
  • Add missing language scope to variant names. This feature is a result of an observation that some topic maps may contain variant names that are missing language topic in their scope. Wandora doesn't view such variant names in Traditional topic panel. Feature adds user addressed language topic to given variant names that have no language topic in their scope.
  • Stands4 word describer
  • Past Wandora versions could export topic maps as a whole only. New Wandora version can export any selectable topic collection as XTM1, XTM2, LTM, JTM, RDF N3, graph, and matrix formats. This feature is a result of practical requirement to merge some parts of previously created topic map to another topic map. Now Wandora user can simply select required topics and then export them as a XTM serialization, and then merge exported topic map with another topic map. Selection export starts with context menu options Topics > Export.
  • Feature removing all topics except selected ones.

New in Wandora 2010-01-04 (Jun 10, 2011)

  • Few releases ago Wandora got several parallel output modules. Topic Map SOAP web service was one of those modules. We wrote several extras for Drupal content management system that demonstrate how you can utilize Wandora content in Drupal. New Wandora version contains similar plugin for Joomla content management system. Wandora's Joomla extra enable you to publish Wandora content in your Joomla site. Read details here.
  • More AlchemyAPI extractors: Keywords, Category, and Language.
  • Bing search engine extractor allows you to construct topic map fragments out of search engine query and related search results provided by the Bing. Both web and image searches are supported.
  • Big Huge Thesaurus API extractor retrieves similar words for given words (say topics) and constructs topic map fragments out of word relations. Feature can be used to build minimal thesaurus topic maps for example.
  • Adjacency matrix import is used to import graphs to Wandora.
  • Incidence matrix import also enable graph import in Wandora.

New in Wandora 2009-11-23 (Dec 4, 2009)

  • Now you can download and check not only subject locators but also URL occurrences.
  • Now 'XML transform and import' feature accepts also URL resources addition to local files.
  • Fixed custom topic tree tab feature.
  • Fixed YouTube search extractor.
  • Fixed GEDCOM extractor scheme.

New in Wandora 2009-10-30 (Dec 4, 2009)

  • Wandora's embedded HTTP server feature has been refactored. New embedded HTTP server has now several parallel output modules. Wandora user can now easily activate and create new output modules. For example, Wandora user could define one output module for a dynamic and browsable HTML site, and other output module for an RSS feed containing topic's instances. As a practical example we have created several Drupal plugins that enable Wandora user to publish Wandora content with Drupal open source content management platform. Drupal plugins are available in Wandora's source code distribution package or as separate downloads. See Extras section on a download page.
  • Along the refactored HTTP server, Wandora's web service feature has been updated to work with Apache Axis2 and the web service feature is integrated with Wandora application. Now you don't need separate Wandora-Piccolo installation to run a topic map web service.
  • New topic map type, Shared Web service topic map, allows Wandora user to share his/her topic maps with other Wandora users. This feature enables a kind of peer-to-peer topic mapping.
  • GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) extractor converting GEDCOM files to topic maps format. Although GEDCOM conversion doesn't support all GEDCOM features, the converter is very useful. We have enclosed Wandora samples folder a Topic Maps conversion of European Royals GEDCOM composed by Denis R. Reid. Extractor is available at File > Extract > Other > GEDCOM extractor.
  • DBpedia extractor. Extractor reads RDF feed from DBpedia and converts it to a Topic Map format. Extractor is available at File > Extract > Subjects > DBpedia extractor.
  • Alchemy Entity Extractor takes a text fragment and extracts named entities out of text. Entities are then converted to topics and associated to the topic carrying the original text. Effect is very similar to OpenCalais classifier. Wandora's Alchemy Entity Extractor is available at File > Classification > Alchemy entity extractor. You need a valid Alchemy apikey to access the extractor.
  • Fixed YouTube extractor and Delicious extractors. YouTube's API libraries had changed. Now the API libraries are updated. Wandora used wrong Delicious web service endpoint. Wandora's Delicious endpoint is now fixed.
  • Fixed really embarrassing bug in Select Topic Button causing nullPointerExceptions.

New in Wandora 2008-08-28 (Sep 5, 2008)

  • OpenCalais classifier
  • OpenCyc extractor
  • SOM classifier
  • Wikipedia extractor
  • GraphXML export
  • Subject locator previews for MPEG videos and PDF documents.