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 for collections of digitized media which would have essentially three parts:
- 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.
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