Functionalities of the Kontextlab Content Management System for interactive knowledge maps.
The Kontextlab-CMS embraces complexity to enable publishers and educators with a new format for conveying complex topics. With the Kontextlab-CMS you can tell the context and all relevant aspects of one topic in a nonlinear way, whereas linear storytelling has limitations. Visualize the context of one topic in…
Studies proove: Mindmapping & Conceptmapping work to understand complex topics. Visualization works to see how aspects of a topic are connected. Learning is much faster with visual content. Remembering is much better in mappings.
The web based editor enables you to easily create maps and to enrich them with your multimedia content. Each map can be easily embeded into your webpage. Building a knowledge map Manually in the editor Connect existing content via an API (individual) Automatically with layout algorithms (upcoming) Editing Edit via the…
Mappings can be used in many sectors and in many areas of use. Click on the nodes around this one and find out where mappings are already in use.
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We are Julia Köberlein, Erich Seifert and Bernhard Scholz – the founders of Kontextlab GmbH. Our team ioncorporates expertise in content, conception, design and software development. Together we have specialized in the communication of complex information. We develop formats that offer users a unique experience in…
All mappings until now had just one layer, one dimension. By adding the layers with the Kontextlab CMS you can add depth to your maps. Let your readers zoom in, explore the content and go on a playful exploration through a topic. Up to 12 layers can be added in our maps – use them as you wish: just for the fun of it…
Our Multimedia Advanced Digital Asset Management System uses the services of the fabulous MADAM. Our lady is a digital asset management system we once built to always have the best possible quality multimedia content in our web publications while keeping the size of the files really small. MADAM does all that. Now…
Sometimes a table of content is really helpful. The Kontextlab CMS offers one the readers can click on and then jump to where they want on one specific map. It combines the nonlinear format of the mapping with the linear way of going directly where you want. Even multimedia content can appear in the table of content…
Remember that one thing but lost the connection somehow? Just type in that word into the search bar in the left upper corner (magnifying glass) and choose from the results to jump directly to it.
The canvas editor within the Kontextlab CMS works WYSIWYG – What you see is what you get. Place the nodes on the canvas, edit their form, colour, size and text, add multimedia content and everything will look like that in the map you then put live. So while building a mapping you directly see how it will look and feel…
Everything on the maps can be edited and tweaked so it looks and feels according to your design guidelines and Corporate Identity. This applies for colours, shapes, fonts and of course logos.
Learning with maps is higly effective and that is well documented. For that reason our technology is already used by teachers and pupils in Austria. Have a look at Vifzack – who even won a Comenius Edu Media Medal with a mapping in 2018. And then there is the Stiftung Bildungspakt Bayern – a foundation from Bavaria…
Everyone wants to improve, wants to develop skills and every organisation seeking for the best talents helps them doing so. To deeply understand the diverse aspects of topics mappings can help to convey better – and keeping everything better in mind. Learning with interactive formats is a combination of visual…
One big topic – everyone should know about it and mostimportatly: Know about the many involved parties, the different aspects and the roles everyone plays. This becomes possible by using mappings: Showing all aspects and combining them with the relevant information. So everyone is on the same page!
Show the world what you have to say. Explain the complex topics you are the expert in by building knowledge maps that engage the readers, lets them see all the relevant aspects and your role in it. Your mapping can be a marketing tool showing all the benefits you and your organization have for your users.
As a publisher you aim to help your readers to understand the topics you have for them. With knowledge maps you can do exactly that: Use what you have and put it into interactive maps – engage readers and keep them on the maps for a loooooong time. You can have the maps behind a paywall or only accessible in…
Playful user interaction = very long user interaction The combination of 1. Concept-/Mindmaps + 2. Content + 3. Design- and gamification elements + 4. Multilayer mind maps leads to -> 5. A playful investigation of the maps. So readers delve into the universe of one topic and explore it driven by their individual…
By showing a map of the structure of a topic the reader gets an overview. Each node can contain content – short, medium, long or multimedia. This allows to have a loooot of content in just one map. Without overwhelming the reader. At Der Kontext for example each topic equals the amount of content a printed textbook…
Time is money and by educating members of an oranization in the best possible way everything happening becomes more effective and more enjoyable. Training can be optimized by using tools like mappings in order to help learners. Additionally, by providing learning material in a mapping before a training course the…
Machines, mechanical and electronic devices or software are made of several components which have to work together. By knowing how all the parts are interconnected everyone operating a machine or using a device or software it is much easier to avoid mistakes and make use of it in the best possible way. By providing…
As an organization evolves a lot of knowledge cumulates – but how can this treasure be accessible? With knowledge maps it becomes possible. Have a look at the project the UNOG has with mappings and find out which UN entity contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals with which expertise and even find the projects…
Learning with mappings works very well. Since the beginnings of mind- and concept-mapping in the 1960s a lot of studies have shown the advantages visual tools, especially of mappings. Keep our Blog in sight for many insights on that – for example about palaces of remembrance (in German). An update with studies will be…
All maps created with the Kontextlab CMS can be embeded in every website. This can be done via several ways: iFrame (like a Youtube video) div (see first a preview and open the fullscreen map via clicking on it) CNAME (link it direktly to your subdomain) The maps can be free for everyone to see or behind a paywall or…
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