Mandala is a suite of digital tools for storing, organizing, and publishing collections 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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| To get started with creating collections in Mandala: 1. Create your resources in the separate Audio-Video, Texts, Visuals, Sources, and Images tools.
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WalkthroughsOverall, the Mandala framework aims to allow scholars to create sophisticated content without needing special grants or much programming assistance. It is a Content Management System (CMS) that allows all skill levels, including beginners just introduced to the suite, to publish their scholarly interests in online publication. Scholars can create complex digital collections, creating visualizations, describing intricate networks of human culture, publishing essays, and building websites.
Sites created using the tools offered in the Mandala Framework can either be content-intensive, communication-intensive, or a mixture of the two. A content-intensive site can have large collections of interrelated media resources (texts, photographs, audio-video, etc.) and structured data (bibliographies, place descriptions, dictionary entries, biographical studies, etc.) organized around a specific thematic subject – a cultural region, time period, person, and so forth. On the other hand, a communication-intensive site would have shorter essays, such as blogs, which typically have many people contributing on a constant basis, meaning that content is rapidly changing. Either type of site may also have visualizations, such as maps, charts, timelines, network visualizations, slideshows, and more. A blended site that has both complex collections of media resources and structured data, as well as a constantly updated array of essays, is also possible to create.
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