General Information

This section contains the identifier for the Knowledge Map, and lets you make the term private or public. 

Make a Term Private

To hide a term from the public: 

1. Click the pencil icon next to General information
2. Uncheck Public?
   
3. Click Update

Delete a Term

Caution: this deletes a term and all the metadata (including definitions) permanently! We can't recover deleted terms. 

1. Click  next to "General information" 

   • You'll see a confirmation popup 

2. Click OK to delete the term permanently

Names

Alternate spellings for a term. The name for a term can change across languages or time: you can track those changes here. You can also list popular names for a term. 

Caption

A brief, "tweet-sized" description for the term. The caption appears in term previews throughout Mandala. It should be under 140 characters. Make sure it's general and clear enough to identify the term from a list.

Summaries

A summary of the important aspects of the term. This should be less than 750 characters long. If you want to translate your summary into multiple languages, each language needs its own summary. You can add more than one summary.

Illustration

A single image that is representative of the term. It appears next to the summary on the main page for the Knowledge Map. Other images, including those that relate to the term but do not illustrate it, can be added using Images in Mandala. Learn more about this feature with Add Illustrations to KMaps.

Term Codes

You can add codes to identify the term here. Every term also has its own unique identifier in Knowledge Maps.

Term Relations

Related Guide: Add Term Relationships

This section lets you define relationships between terms. 

In Terms, new terms get placed automatically on the tree. For example, if you add the term apple in English, apple will automatically get filed under A in the terms tree. In the Terms Relations section for apple, you would then see "is beginning of A."

You might, however, what to associate terms with others outside of the tree context. For example, hot "is an antonym of cold." You can also connect specific definitions. In this case, use the instructions at Add Term Relationships. 

Passages

Related Guide: Add Passages

A passage is a quote from a text that explains the term, or shows how the term is used. 

You can add passages to a definition or an entire term. Passages can also include citations from Mandala Sources.

Essay

This is a legacy option. You should use Texts in Mandala if you want to add a longer essay to your Knowledge Map.

Definitions

To add relationships between definitions, see Add Term Relationships.

Some definitions were imported from external dictionaries: you'll see these under Other Dictionaries. Click the pencil icon next to these imported definitions to edit them. 

Recordings

Recordings let you add audio files of your term being spoken. To add a recording: 

1. Click Add recording

   • Metadata fields for recordings will open

2. Enter the dialect name, or click show dialect hierarchy to see the list of 
   
   • If you need a dialect not on this list, contact mandala@virginia.edu 
3. Click Choose File next to "Audio File"

   • Your operating system's file browser will open

4. Open the file you want to add
5. Click Create

Subject-Term Associations

Subject-term associations let you add grammatical functions, language context, literary forms, and other important information about a term (the "subject" in the subject-term association). These subjects are specific controlled vocabularies and ontologies built in Mandala Knowledge Maps. 

For ease of use, we recommend you use the quick links under Subject-Term Associations to add the appropriate information. To do this, you would: 

1. Click the quick link in the section 
   1. For example, if you wanted to specify the register you would click Register association
   2. A form will appear
2. Leave the Branch field alone; this default value was specified by the quick link
3. Search for the subject you want to add
   1. For example, the register
   2. You may find it easier to click View Subject Hierarchy. This will let you see all the controlled vocabularies available to you.
4. Click Create  

Etymologies

Controlled Vocabularies

Name Type

Language

• Arabic

• Burmese

• Chinese

• Dzongkha

• English

• French

• German

• Hindi

• Italian

• Japanese

• Korean

• Latin

• Mongolian

• Nepali

• Pali

• Polish

• Prakrit

• Russian

• Sanskrit

• Sinhalese

• Spanish

• Thai

• Tibetan

• Unknown

• Urdu

• Vietnamese

Writing System

• Cyrillic
• Devanagari Script
• Latin Script
• Simplified Chinese Characters
• Tibetan Script
• Traditional Chinese Characters

Picture Type

Unless you're part of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, this should always be External. 

• External 
• MMS

Terms Relation Type