Ecology is the study of relationships of organisms to each other and to their environment. Using this metaphor as a guide, SHANTI created the Mandala Project, which can be understood as having essentially three parts: Mandala, including the digital tools it offers, is the "environment", the media contents created by scholars using these digital tools are the "organisms" that live within this environment, and the Knowledge Maps application is the glue that allows everything to interact with everything else. In other words, Mandala comprises Mandala is a suite of digital tools that are used for for storing, organizing, and publishing collections of scholarly media, media which then can be interrelated and cataloged using Knowledge Maps.
Mandala allows scholars to create this sophisticated content without needing special grants or much programming assistance. Scholars of all skill-levels can easily create rich collections that include many types of media, such as videos, charts, essays, network graphs, and much more. Using Mandala is simple. First, create a collection and add content to it using a digital tool, such as Mediabase, SHIVA, or Text, all of which can be accessed with Netbadge. Next, catalog and connect content together with Knowledge Map terms. Finally, explore your collections in portals that show all of your content, as well as the content of others, and focus your exploration by searching for the Knowledge Map terms that interest you.
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of scholarly content. Each asset in the suite can be catalogued with Knowledge Map terms, which allow assets to be indexed, searched, and interrelated across the entire Mandala suite. KMap terms, in effect, are special labels or tags in a hierarchical tree context. There are two types of Knowledge Map terms: subjects and places.
Mandala lets scholars create and manage a variety of types of scholarly content in a sophisticated way without the necessity of building a collection from scratch. Its indexing and search functionality does the work of locating and collating similar assets across a wide variety of management tools.
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