"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.
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