Wandora Changelog

What's 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. Documentation is available at Statistical analysis of Topic Maps in R.

New in Wandora 2013-06-28 (Jun 29, 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 2012-01-28 (Jan 29, 2013)

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

New in Wandora 2012-04-30 (May 1, 2012)

  • 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 (Mar 1, 2012)

  • 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 returns 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 merged 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 to topic sets. First topic set has geo-coordinates 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).
  • Log messages have been improved. Miscellaneous UI improvements.

New in Wandora 2011-11-30 (Dec 1, 2011)

  • Processing topic panel makes Wandora a Processing programming environment with a topic map API. Processing topic panel allows Wandora user to execute Processing scripts against current topic or whole topic map. Processing topic panel gives Wandora user an excellent development tool for topic map visualizations.
  • R topic panel follows the idea of Processing topic panel. It offers a feature to execute R scripts against current topic and topic map. Notice, Wandora has also a separate R console released earlier.
  • Oma kaupunki event and service extractor. Oma kaupunki is a Helsinki city based news, events and service portal. Wandora extractor allows user to extract local event and service information.
  • Treemap topic panel is a topic visualization based on treemapping algorithm.
  • Twitter extractor. Yes, finally Wandora user can perform Twitter searches and transform search results to topics and associations.
  • Google Translation feature uses now Google Translation API v2.
  • Wandora's Firefox and Thunderbird plugin works now on FF version 8 and TB version 8.
  • Numerous UI changes and enhancements.

New in Wandora 2011-09-19 (Sep 20, 2011)

  • Fixes GeoNames extractors. Now Wandora's GeoNames extractors require a username provided by the GeoNames.
  • R console window has been rewritten.
  • Topic table allows any topic selection now. Java's JTable component allows selections of single rows and single columns only (which is fine if you have only one column). Now Wandora overcomes the default limitation.
  • Occurrences can be duplicated (to other type). User can also change occurrence's type.
  • We have tested Wandora on Java 7.
  • New feature: Export similarity matrix. Similarity matrix is similar to topic adjacency matrix but matrix cell contains a value representing selected similarity of row and column topics. Feature has predefined similarity measures of Subject locator similarity, Highest subject identifier similarity, Basename similarity etc.
  • Wandora's Firefox and Thunderbird plugin works now on FF version 6.0 and TB version 6.0.

New in Wandora 2011-08-15 (Aug 15, 2011)

  • SQL query result set extractor
  • R integration. Requires separate R language installation.
  • uClassify integration
  • Enhanced association editor supports now default type and roles and remembers your last selection.
  • Enhanced occurrence editor supports now default type and remembers your last selection.
  • Enhanced HelMet library data extractor supports now paging.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in Wandora 2011-03-18 (Mar 18, 2011)

  • GATE/Annie integration
  • Stanford Named Entity Recognizer integration

New in Wandora 2011-02-18 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Any23 integration brings 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.
  • YouTube extractor has been updated to use the most recent Google client libraries.
  • Google Translate integration to automate variant name and occurrence translations.

New in Wandora 2010-12-17 (Dec 17, 2010)

  • Release contains some minor feature enhancements related to Email extractor, Simple document extractor, Simple file 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 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • Maiana integration enables Wandora user to download topic maps from Maiana. Also, 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 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • A Facebook Graph extractor and a MARCXML extractor were added.
  • The Wandora browser plugin has been updated and now works on Thunderbird 3.x.

New in Wandora 2009-03-13 (Mar 13, 2009)

  • Added Diigo bookmark extractor.
  • Added Twine RDF extractor.
  • Added SKOS RDF extractor.
  • Added FOAF RDF extractor.
  • Added YouTube URL extractor.
  • Added foreign key support to Generic SQL database import.
  • Rewritten Tool manager.
  • Rewritten Bibtex extractor.
  • LTM import and export have been fixed.
  • See bug report in Wandora Forum.
  • Fixed topic drag and drop.
  • Works now also in Linux.
  • Release contains also many small bug fixes.

New in Wandora 2009-01-30 (Feb 2, 2009)

  • New and enhanced features include string similarity search, an enhanced occurrence text editor with direct occurrence classifiers, the ability to find topics with similar occurrences, the ability to find topic references in occurrences, and the ability to make topics out of occurrence selections.
  • A "revert project" feature has been added.
  • WWW site export templates have been refactored and simplified.

New in Wandora 08-12-10 (Dec 11, 2008)

  • This release features an L-system generator for Topic Maps, an Ovi Shared media extractor, a generic Atom syndication feed extractor, Gene Ontology annotation flat file format import, and several new GeoNames extractors.

New in Wandora 2008-10-24 (Oct 25, 2008)

  • XTM version 2.0 can be imported and exported. SQL dump can be exported.
  • The Wandora Firefox plugin can now be used also in the Thunderbird mail client.
  • A Hypercube graph generator, a tiling graph generator, geonames extractors, and a SemanticHacker classifier were added.
  • Drag and drop was enhanced.

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

  • Firefox plugin to extract directly from Firefox WWW browser.
  • OpenCalais classifier
  • OpenCyc extractor
  • SOM classifier
  • Wikipedia extractor
  • GraphXML export
  • Subject locator previews for MPEG videos and PDF documents.
  • Many small bugs fixed.