Create a knowledge map by cataloguing your visualizations, essays, media, and so on using terms you create. See the Knowledge Maps glossary definition for more information.
Knowledge Maps are a powerful new SHANTI technology for creating annotated, multilingual, and hierarchical "maps" of subjects of knowledge. For example, if you want to document literary genres, or ritual traditions, or some other area of knowledge in a given culture, community, or time period, you can create a hierarchical representation of the relevant categories and subcategories down to as deep a level as you want. Each category can be represented in multiple linguistic forms, and can be described and analyzed with multiple essays, each titled and attributed to their their author. In addition to their utility as valuable reference resources in their own right, these "maps" can also be incorporated into indexing other resources, so that you can describe images, videos, texts, places, or more using these maps, with the category as occurring in those contexts hyperlinked at all points to its entry in the relevant knowledge map, where you can also see all other resources linked to that category. All work and display is done online, and you can get up and going in ten minutes.
If you are creating a project that matches any of the following primary use cases, Knowledge Maps might be right for you:
- You want to represent and describe systematically an area of knowledge using a tree of categories and subcategories
- You want to index resources - images, audio-video, texts, etc. - according to multi-level hierarchy of controlled vocabulary, and also annotate the hierarchy itself
For specific examples of Knowledge Maps in use, visit the SHANTI Knowledge Maps and explore the mostly Tibetan examples currently posted.