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Knowledge Maps, or KMaps, can be crudely described as "labels in a hierarchal tree format." If you're familiar with the concept of ontologies, controlled vocabularies, or semantic fields, then KMaps won't be new to you. However, each Knowledge Map also has its own metadata data (alternate names, descriptions, and more), visible through the Subjects and Places viewers. A KMap's metadata, along with its position relative to other Knowledge Maps in the hierarchy, provides valuable context about a term.
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- subject and place labels…
- …organized in a hierarchal tree format…
- ...with their own independent structured data (alternate names, descriptions, illustrations, maps, and more)….
- ...that index content across Mandala, and
- …that connect:
- content from one Mandala tool with content from another tool; and
- a Mandala asset with information about a term; and
- a term with related Knowledge Map terms.
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