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Knowledge Maps let you build semantic fields or ontologies of terms, which you can then use to label resources you create in Mandala. At the most basic level, Knowledge Maps are terms or tags in a hierarchy. This places a term in the appropriate context.
Furthermore, each Knowledge Map term has its own associated metadata, including term definitions, related terms, alternate names, specific GIS locations, and more. You can see all this information using the Knowledge Maps viewers. Whenever you label a resource in Mandala with a Knowledge Map, it links to the Knowledge Map viewer.
There are currently two types of Knowledge Maps: subjects and places. Each has its own viewer at https://mandala.shanti.virginia.edu/subjects and https://mandala.shanti.virginia.edu/places, respectively. We call the hierarchical grouping of terms a Knowledge Map tree.
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