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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 

    • 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

  • 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 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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