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- Mandala, including the digital tools it offers, is the environment
- The media content created by scholars using these digital tools are the organisms that live within this environment,
- The Knowledge Maps application is the glue that allows everything to interact with everything else.
In other words, Mandala comprises a suite of digital tools that are used for storing, organizing, and publishing collections of scholarly media, media which then can be interrelated and cataloged using Knowledge Maps.
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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.
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To get started, simply 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.
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