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Definition:
Knowledge Maps are a powerful new SHANTI technology for creating annotated, multilingual, and hierarchical "maps" of subjects of knowledge
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Create your map by cataloguing your visualizations, essays, videos, and so on using terms that you create In addition to their utility as valuable reference resources for your own work, these "maps" can incorporate links to resources made by other projects
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
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linguistic forms and can be described and analyzed with multiple essays, each titled and attributed to their
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author
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
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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
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