Definition:
Knowledge Maps are a powerful new SHANTI technology for creating annotated, multilingual, and hierarchical "maps" of subjects of knowledge. In other words, a knowledge map is a hierarchical tree of subject tags, or "terms". You can create your own terms, or use existing ones. Create a knowledge map by marking your visualizations, essays, videos, and so on, with the terms of your choosing. Each term 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 a particular term. All work and display is done online, and you can get up and going in ten minutes.
Knowledge maps are particularly useful when:
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: