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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, meaning that content is rapidly changing. Either type of site may also have visualizations, such as maps, charts, timelines, network graphs, 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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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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