Knowledge Maps are a powerful new SHANTI technology for creating annotated, multilingual, and SHANTI developed Knowledge Maps to help you make annotated, hierarchical "maps" of subjects of areas of knowledge. In other words, a A knowledge map is a hierarchical tree of subject tagslabels, or " terms."
You can create contribute to existing terms or make your own terms, or use existing ones. Create a knowledge map by marking your visualizations, essays, videos, and so on, with the terms of your choosing. Each term can be represented in multiple linguistic forms and can be described and analyzed with multiple essays, each titled and attributed to their author. In addition to their utility as valuable reference resources for your own work, these "maps" can incorporate links to resources made by other projects. You can also find out what other scholars have been working on in a given category by clicking on a particular term. All work and display is done online, and you can get up and going in ten minutes.
Knowledge Maps are particularly useful when:
. Currently, there are two types of Knowledge Maps: subjects and places. Each subject or place includes:
- one or more descriptions of the term
- resources across projects with the same label
To make a knowledge map, you first create a term in Subjects or Places. Then you label media from any of the Mandala tools with this term. You can represent terms in multiple languages, and each term can include descriptions with different authors.
In brief, Knowledge Maps lets you:
- represent You want to represent and describe an area of knowledge using a tree of categories and subcategories
- You want to index resources - images, audio-video, texts, etc. - according to multi-level a hierarchy of controlled vocabulary, and be able to then annotate that hierarchy
For specific examples of Knowledge Maps in use, visit the SHANTI Knowledge Maps page.
Example
Here's the Bhutan Cultural Library term from Subjects.
As you can see, the Knowledge Maps includes a description of the item alongside several thousand linked texts, images, sound and video. Clicking each link on the sidebar will show you a gallery of resources tagged with "Bhutan Cultural Library."
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