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Definition:

  • Knowledge Maps are a powerful new SHANTI technology for creating  annotated, multilingual, and hierarchical "maps" of subjects of  knowledge

  • Create your map by cataloguing your visualizations, essays, videos, and so on using terms that you create In addition to their  utility as valuable reference resources for your own work, these "maps"  can incorporate links to resources made by other projects

    • 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 author

  • Find out what other scholars have been working on in a given category by clicking on that category 

  • You can use existing categories, or create your own

  • 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 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 be able to annotate that hierarchy

  • For specific examples of Knowledge Maps in use, visit the SHANTI Knowledge Maps page

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