Knowledge Maps Defined

Definition:

Knowledge Maps are a powerful new SHANTI technology for creating  annotated, multilingual, and hierarchical "maps" of subjects of  knowledge. In Knowledge Maps, a "term", similar to a category, is the name for a large section of the map. Create your map by cataloguing your visualizations, essays, videos, and so on using either your own terms, or existing terms. Each of these sections can be represented in multiple linguistic forms and can be described and analyzed with multiple essays, each  titled and attributed to their author. In addition to their  utility as valuable reference resources for your own work, these "maps"  can incorporate links to resources made by other projects. You can also 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

Related step-by-step guides:

• Place: Categorize Media Using Knowledge Maps 

• Subject: Categorize Media Using Knowledge Maps