[topicmapmail] mapping software to generate XTMs

[Aki Kivelä]

On 11 May 2007 at 11:52, Steve Pepper wrote:

> On the other hand, they are talking about automatically generating *topic
> maps* (not topic map *ontologies*) from "standard representation languages",
> and that implies a focus on data. In that case, software that maps from RDF,
> XML and RDB-related formats would also be relevant.
> 
> I suspect it would be of interest to the community to hear what both Ontopia
> and other vendors have to offer in both these areas.


Hello everyone

Happy to inform that Wandora application (http://www.wandora.net) is 
capable to import

o XTM and in fact any XML if you have the XSL for XML to XTM 
transformation.
o LTM
o RDF(S) and N3 although the import schema is very simple.

Export formats are XTM, LTM, and N3. N3 export contains very narrow 
subset of topic map features. Wandora's most interesting extractors 
are:

o Database extractor converts almost any SQL database to a topic map.
o Email extractor converts emails and DBX and MBOX email repositories 
to a topic map.
o MediaWiki extractor converts MediaWiki (Wikipedia for example) XML 
dumps to a topic map. Conversion does not process links in the wiki 
page content but they may be transformed later to associations with 
another Wandora tool (Find associations in text datas).
o FreeDB extractor reads freedb (www.freedb.org) database entries  
and converts the data to a topic map.
o IMDB extractor reads Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/) 
files and converts them to topic maps.
o Simple PDF, MP3, and JPG metadata extractors read binary files and 
creates a topic map out of file's metadata.

New - yet unpublished - version of Wandora has also a set of 
extractors for Last.fm's web api. New Wandora version will be 
published within couple weeks as we are currently finishing Wandora's 
own web api (wsdl).

I agree the extractor set has many music and media related 
extractors. This is due to a vision that music and media related 
content is one of the most important key factors driving the demand 
for topic maps (and the rest of the semantic web technologies).

We are always looking for new extraction ideas and welcome 
suggestions for new extractors. If you need a topic map 
extractor/generator for any data/metadata format please drop us a 
line and we are happy to think it over. No strings attached.

Wandora application can be downloaded from http://www.wandora.net. 
The site has also more information about the import, export, and 
extract capabilities listed above.

Best regards,
Aki Kivela
Grip Studios Interactive
http://www.gripstudios.com