Knowledge Mappers is a digital mapping consultancy & publishing company with a unique mix of geographic & knowledge mapping expertise. Our ground-breaking products & services visually connect individuals, teams, organisations & communities with the knowledge resources that they need… to do what they need to do… quicker, easier, and with a lot less stress :-)
Professionally crafted & curated knowledge maps of real world & conceptual ‘spaces’ of human interest & endeavour. Like all maps, they are visually structured registers of the ‘things’ that define the ‘space’, and the ‘spatial’ relationships between them. But they are also registers of – and portals to – official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ knowledge resources about those ‘things’ available in the public domain. Maps can be downloaded in both original MindManager (.mmap) and HTML5 format, and so can be viewed in any browser, on any device, without the need for adtitonal plugins.
The School Travel Health Check (STHC) Spatial Analysis Service is an example of a GI consultancy project for one local authority in 2004 that soon “grew arms and legs” to become a ground-breaking, nationally available service. It provides high quality, spatial intelligence to local authorities, school communities and other stakeholders interested in how children travel to school, from where, and how far they travel to get there.
Our General International Annual Calendar maps build on the visual knowledge framework of the Annual Base Calendar for the specific year in the Gregorian (‘Western’) calendar through the addition over 500 international, publicly significant diary events as knowledge seed sub-branches off of the relevant day of the year branch.
Annually recurring events included in the map cover astronomical events (eg. phases of the moon), religious observances for the world’s major religeons, official United Nations Observances, and the national days of every official ISO3166-1 country in the world. Events may occur on a fixed calendar date each year (eg. ‘Jan 1’), or move relative to day of the week (eg. ‘1st monday in June’), or be determined by the heavens (eg. seasonal equinoxes & solstices).
All the seed branches have a rich range of visual knowledge elements embedded within, or attached to, them – such as unique icon graphic, flags, ‘traditional’ monthly calendar grid (spreadsheet) for handy reference, multiple hyperlinks to official / definitive / plain old useful online knowledge resources about the day, month or event (eg. the official event page from the organiser (if there is one), and any other useful sources (eg. there is usually a page or a sub-article on Wikipedia), and a range of time or event related marker tags that enable the map to be filtered to show only branches with those values. Together they provide a rich ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge & knowledge resource links about a specific year, not only the days and months but also the events that occured in it (see the ‘Seed Branches’ tab for a detailed description).
As well as being a versatile calendar to plan your year ahead (and become the archive index file of what happened when), this map is a knowledge portal to those regularly recurring events that shape our day to day lives as citizens of the world. We have never all mixed together as neighbours, colleagues, friends & lovers to the extent we do now in these days of globalisation, so anything that increases our mutual understanding of where we’ve all come from and where (and when) we all want to go next, can only be welcomed 🙂
MindManager Users: You are free to edit, remove or add to the calendar map as required eg. adding your own diary events to plan & keep track of your year in general, or specific projects and milestones. Once your year is over your map becomes your instantly accessible archive file for what happened when. Your ‘business year’ doesn’t start on January 1st? Mix and match main branches from different years to create your own bespoke annual calendar map.
Explore the other tabs for comprehensive descriptions of the knowledge seed branches and knowledge link collections that make up this knowledge calendar map….
Knowledge seed branches provide a ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge about the subject embedded within, or attached to, them in the form of…
Image [Embedded] – Such as thumbnail location maps, flags, icons, people profile pictures etc., which provide a unique visual element that users can instantly latch on to as they navigate their way through the map.
Text [Embedded] – Rich (ie. variably formatted) branch text – such as names & unique identifying codes (taken from official sources) – is a unique MindManager feature.
Note [Attached] – Contains supplementary information with all the elements of a word processed page – variably formatted (‘rich’) text, tables and images.
Spreadsheet Table / Chart [Embedded] – Containing contextual facts & figures, which can be toggled between table and chart view as appropriate (once again unique to MindManager).
Multiple Single Data Fields [Embedded] – Another way of adding contextual facts & figures to the map (once again unique to MindManager), these are like single cells in a spreadsheet and the values can be used to format the topic.
Index Marker Tags [Attached] – Arranged in groups and added to individual branches as appropriate, tags add contextual knowledge, enable map filtering and navigation.
Multiple Hyperlinks [Attached] – Another unique feature, multiple links to a range of official definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about the subject of the seed branch – usually selected from the full range of general & geographic knowledge resource collections – help turn the map into a knowledge portal without adding to the visual clutter.
All the seed branches and their associated embedded / attached contextual knowledge elements used in this map are described in detail below…
Specific Month Of The Specific Year Seed Branch
MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways…
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Image: Specific Month & Year Icon
A bespoke icon that uniquely identifies the specifc month of the specific year using a calendar image, which ccontains the specific year above the name of the month (abbreviated to the first 3 letters).
Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 48 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KB).
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Text: Specific Month & Year
Richly formatted text string of the specific month name in full and the year, eg. ‘January 2020’.
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Embedded Spreadsheet: Specific Month Calendar Grid
An embedded spreadsheet (another unique MindManager feature) showing all the days of the specific month in terms of the 7 days of the week in a traditional calendar grid layout. The weekend days of saturday and sunday are differentiated by background shading.
Note(s)
i) This embedded feature can be hidden / shown by clicking the green toggle arrow just above the top right corner of the embedded feature.
ii) The contents of an embedded spreadsheet can be a simple table, or it can be numerical data. If the latter then if it is structured appropriately the data can also be viewed as a chart (the range of chart types is the same as other spreadsheet software). MindManger users are able to toggle between the spreadsheet and chart view, whilst the view is fixed on export of the HTML version.
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Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
Arranged in groups and attached to branches as required, index marker tags…
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As this is a Calendar map, unsurprisingly all the tags in it are TIME tags, covering different time intervals – years, quarters, months, weeks, & days (see notes below). Other than the time interval covered, there are 2 main differences between the different tag groups….
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MONTH TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Months, the subject nature of this Specific month of the specific year’ seed branch…
TIME – MONTHS (Mmm YYYY) – YYYY [ATTACHED] – The specific months of the specific Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and year – 12 tags from eg. ‘Jan 2024’ to ‘Dec 2024’.
TIME – MONTHS (MNN-YYYY) – YYYY [ATTACHED] – The specific months of the Gregorian Calendar year as a numerical sequence – 12 tags from eg. ‘M01-2024’ to ‘M12-2024’.
**NO!** TIME – MONTHS (Mmm-YYYY/YY) – YYYY/YY [NOT ATTACHED] – The months of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in 3 letter abbreviation format eg. ‘ Jan 2023/24’ and ‘Jan 2024/25’ (2 groups of 12 tags, from ‘Jan YYYY/YY’ to ‘Dec YYYY/YY’).**
TIME – MONTHS (MNN-YYYY/YY) – YYYY/YY [NOT ATTACHED] – The months of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in numeric sequence format eg. ‘M01-2023/24’ and ‘M01-2024/25’ (2 groups of 12 tags from ‘M01-YYYY/YY’ to ‘M12-YYYY/YY’).
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TAGS NOT CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO THIS SEED BRANCH BUT AVAILABLE FOR USE AS REQUIRED
The following tag groups are for either for other time intervals not represented by branches in the calendar and/or they are specific to the user as to whether they want to include them, and which ones go where. Thus they have not been assigned to seed branches but they are available in the index marker pane of the map for MindManager users to use in this (or any other) map. Note they will not be visible in the HTML version.
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YEAR TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Years…
TIME – YEARS (YYYY) – YYYY-YY [NOT ATTACHED] – The particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘2024’, plus the year either side (3 tags in all).
TIME – YEARS (YYYY/YY) – YYYY/YY [NOT ATTACHED] – The 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘2023/24’ and ‘2024/25’ (2 tags in all).
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QUARTER TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Quarters…
TIME – QUARTERS – (QN-YYYY) – YYYY [NOT ATTACHED] – The quarters of the particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘Q1-2024’ (4 tags in all from ‘Q1-YYYY’ to ‘Q4-YYYY’).
TIME – QUARTERS (QN-YYYY/YY) – YYYY/YY [NOT ATTACHED] – The quarters of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map eg. ‘ Q1-2023/24’ and ‘Q1-2024/25’ (2 groups of 4 tags from ‘Q1-YYYY/YY’ to ‘Q4-YYYY/YY’).
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WEEK TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Weeks…
TIME – WEEKS (WNN-YYYY) – YYYY [NOT ATTACHED] – The weeks of the particular calendar year of the map with the weeks in numerical sequence format eg. ‘W01-2024’ (52 tags in all from ‘W01-YYYY’ to ‘W52-YYYY’).
TIME – WEEKS (WNN-YYYY/YY) – YYYY/YY [NOT ATTACHED] – The weeks of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map with the month in numeric sequence format eg. ‘W01-2023/24’ and ‘W01-2024/25’ (2 groups of 52 tags from ‘W01-YYYY/YY’ to ‘W52-YYYY/YY’).
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General Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain..
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ii) Within MindManager, tags…
Multiple Hyperlinks: Multiple
See next section for full detailsof the multiple internal and external hyperlinks attached to this seed branch.
Specific Month Of The Specific Year Seed Branch
MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This greatly reduces the visual clutter of the map as extra branches are not required just to include a link, and it means a single branch can become a link hub (ie. a ‘knowledge portal’ if you will). Hyperlinks are of one of 2 types….
Internal hyperlinks to other map branches.
External hyperlinks to resources (‘URLs’) on the world wide web (or Local Ara Network (LAN) if in an enterprise setting).
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See below for full descriptions of all the links under each category attached to this seed branch….
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Internal Hyperlinks
Internal hyperlinks are those to other branches in the map, and they provide a quick means of internal navigation by along users to ‘jump’ from one branch to another with a single click. The internal hyperlinks attached to this seed branch are as follows….
Days of the month sub-branches – The Month branch has internal hyperlinks to each day of that month sub-branch, which provides a means of quickly navigating to it.
Note(s)
i) Each day of the month sub-branch also has an internal hyperlink back to this ‘parent’ month branch, so users can quickly jump back and forth between days.
ii) Within MindManger the ‘Dates’ and ‘Months’ index marker tags used throughout the calendar map seed branches also provide another means of quick internal navigation as users can just click on the branches listed under each tag in the Index Marker Pane and the map will refocus on it.
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External Hyperlinks To General Knowledge Resources
One of our philosophies at KnowledgeMappers is not to reinvent the wheel whenever possible. Thus we include external hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources in the public domain whenever possible. By doing this….
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In this seed branch external links are to resources about the months of the year, both generic (eg. ‘January’) and specific (eg. January 2024). They are a mixture of…
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The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch…
Note that resources about specific months that are still in the future will not be populated yet, and the link may not even work (but if future you is reading this then they will 😉 ).
Days of the Year – List of ‘National Days’ in this Generic Month e.g. ‘January‘ on one of the most popular ‘Holidays on this generic day’ websites. (Note the page displays as month of the current year).
National Today – Holidays in this Generic Month (e.g. ‘January‘) as a list of all ‘holidays’ in the month by ascending date.
On This Day – What happened in this Specific Month ‘in history’ (e.g. ‘January 2024‘) as a list of all ‘events’ in the month by ascending date.
Wikipedia – Generic Month Article – Main Wikipedia article about the generic month (e.g. ‘January‘).
Wikipedia – Category: Generic Month – Wikipedia listing of subcategories and pages in the category for the generic month (e.g. ‘January‘).
Wikipedia – Category: Generic Month Events – Wikipedia listing of subcategories and pages in the category for events occuring in the generic month (e.g. ‘January Events‘).
Wikipedia – Category: Generic Month Observances – Wikipedia listing of subcategories and pages in the category for observances occuring in the generic month e.g. ‘January Observances‘.
Wikipedia – Worldwide Current Events Portal for Specific Month – Listing on the Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the specific month e.g. ‘January 2024‘.
General Note(s)
i) MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This…
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ii) The chain icon at the end of a branch (rather than the favicon (logo icon) served by the linked-to website) indicates where a branch has more than one hyperlink.
iii) In the circular knowledge economy way of Wikipedia if there is knowledge that you could add to an existing page that is linked to, or even starting a page that doesn’t yet exist, then go for it! That’s what it’s all about!
Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch
MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways…
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Image: Specific Date Icon
A bespoke icon that uniquely identifies the specific day of the year using a double calendar image. The left hand calendar contains the specific year above the name of the month (abbreviated to the first 3 letters), whilst the right hand one contains the day of the week (abbreviated to the first 3 letters) above the numerical day of the month (so from 1 to 31).
Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 96 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KB).
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Text: Specific Date
Richly formatted text string of the specific date (year, month & day of the month) and day of the week in the format eg. ‘1 Jan 2020 Wed’. The day of the week is in normal (as opposed to bold) font, and moved to the line below, to improve ‘readbility’.
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Branch Shading Colour: ‘Type’ of Day
Day branches are shaded according to the usual differentiation between days of the week – working days (mon-fri by default), and weekends (sat & sun by default).
Note(s)
i) Branch shading is controlled by a Smart Rule (a unique MindManager feature) triggered by the ‘TIME – Days of the week’ index marker tag – ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default. MindManager users can easily change this rule to set weekends as any days of the week they want (and add further rules as required eg. adding their own public holidays, leave days etc.).
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Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
Arranged in groups and attached to branches as required, index marker tags…
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As this is a Calendar map, unsurprisingly all the tags in it are TIME tags, covering different time intervals – years, quarters, months, weeks, & days (see notes below). Other than the time interval covered, there are 2 main differences between the different tag groups….
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DATE TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Dates, the subject nature of this ‘specific day of the specific month of the specific year’ seed branch…
TIME – DATES (D Mmm) – GEN – Every generic date of the month, for each of the 12 months of the generic Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and number – 365 tags from ‘Jan 1’ to ‘Dec 31’.
TIME – DATES (D Mon YYYY DoW) – YYYY – Every date of the specific year in the same format as the day branch text – 365 tags from eg. ‘1 Jan 2024 Tue’ to ’31 Dec 2024 Tue’.
TIME – DATES (DD/MM/YYYY) – YYYY – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in the most commonly used numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’31/12/2019′.
TIME – DATES (MM/DD/YYYY) – YYYY – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘Amercan’ style numeric format (ie. months first) – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’12/31/2019′.
TIME – DATES (YYYY/MM/DD) – YYYY – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘year first’ numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’31/12/2019′.
Note(s)
i) This format is the only one in which the chronological order of the tags in the group will ‘survive’ a numeric sorting operation (ie. arrange ‘lowest to highest’ or ‘highest to lowest’).
DAY TAGS
The following tags relate to the time interval of Calendar Dates, the subject nature of this ‘specific day of the specific month of the specific year’ seed branch…
here are lots of different ways that days in a calendar can be classified. We have also included tag groups for some of them
TIME – DAYS (DNNN) – The seqential number of the day in the generic calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001’ to ‘D365’ (366 if it’s a leap year).
TIME – DAYS (DNNN-YYYY) – YYYY – The seqential number of the day in the specific calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2024’ to ‘D365-2024’ (366 if it’s a leap year).
TIME – DAYS ( DoW) – GEN – The days of the week abbreviated to the first 3 letters – 7 tags from ‘Mon’ to ‘Sun’.
Note(s)
i) The tags in this group are used to control the shading of ‘working’ and ‘weekend’ day branches by a Smart Rule in MindManager (a unique MindManager feature). ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default but these can be changed within MindManager.
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TAGS NOT CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO THIS SEED BRANCH BUT ARE AVAILABLE FOR USE AS REQUIRED
The following tag groups are either for other time intervals not represented by branches in the calendar and/or they are specific to the user as to whether they want to include them, and which ones go where. Thus they have not been assigned to seed branches but they are available in the index marker pane of the map for MindManager users to use in this (or any other) map. Note they will not be visible in the HTML version.
TIME – Days (DNNN-YYYY/YY)- YYYY/YY – The seqential number of the days of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map – 2 groups of 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2018/19’ to ‘D356-2018/19’ (366 if it’s a leap year).
TIME – Days – Type – The type of day with respect to work & lifestyle. 4 tags in all…
General Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain…
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ii) Within MindManager, tags…
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Attached Hyperlinks: Various – See next section for full detailsof the multiple internal and external hyperlinks attached to this seed branch.
Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch
MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This greatly reduces the visual clutter of the map as extra branches are not required just to include a link, and it means a single branch can become a link hub (ie. a ‘knowledge portal’ if you will). Hyperlinks are of one of 2 types….
Internal hyperlinks to other map branches.
External hyperlinks to resources (‘URLs’) on the world wide web (or Local Ara Network (LAN) if in an enterprise setting).
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See below for full descriptions of all the links under each category attached to this seed branch….
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Internal Navigation Links
Internal hyperlinks are those to other branches in the map, and they provide a quick means of internal navigation by along users to ‘jump’ from one branch to another with a single click. The internal hyperlinks attached to this seed branch are as follows….
Internal Navigation Links: Month parent branch – Each day of the month sub-branch has an internal hyperlink back to the parent month branch, so you can quickly jump ‘back up’ the map.
Note(s)
i) The Month branch also has internal hyperlinks to each day of that month sub-branch, which provides a means of quickly navigating to it.so you can quickly jump back and forth between days.
ii) Within MindManger the ‘Dates’ and ‘Months’ index marker tags used throughout the calendar map seed branches also provide another means of quick internal navigation as users can just click on the branches listed under each tag in the Index Marker Pane and the map will refocus on it.
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General Knowledge Resource Links
One of our philosophies at KnowledgeMappers is not to reinvent the wheel. whenever possible. Thus we include external hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources in the public domain whenever possible. . By doing this…
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In this seed branch external links are to resources about the days of the year, both generic (eg. ‘January’) and specific (eg. January 2024). They are a mixture of…
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The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch…
Note that resources about specific dates that are still in the future will not be populated yet, and the link may not even work (but if future you is reading this then they will 😉 ).
Days of the Year – List of ‘National Days’ that take place on this Generic Day of the Month (e.g. ‘National days on Mon Jan 1st‘) on one of the most popular ‘Holidays on this generic day’ websites. (Note the page displays as day of the month of the current year).
National Today – List of ‘holidays’ that take place on this Generic Day of the Month (e.g. ‘January 1st Holidays‘) on another of the most popular ‘Holidays on this generic day’ websites.
On This Day – What happened on this Generic Day of the Month ‘in history’ (e.g. ‘Historical Events on January 1st‘). With over 215,000 entries, ‘On This Day’ is the world’s largest ‘on this day in history’ type website.
Time and Date – What happened on this Generic Day of the Month ‘in history’ (e.g. ‘On this day in history – January 1‘). It is less comprehensive than other ‘on this day in history’ websites, however it has many other great time-related functional features.
Wikipedia – Generic Day of the Year article – Main Wikipedia article about the generic day of the year / month (e.g. ‘January 1‘), which mostly consists of lists of Events, Births, Deaths and Observances .
Wikipedia – Worldwide Current Events Portal For The Specific Day – Listing on the Wikipedia ‘Current Events’ portal for the specific date e.g. ‘1 January 2024‘.
General Note(s)
i) MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This…
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ii) The chain icon at the end of a branch (rather than the favicon (logo icon) served by the linked-to website) indicates where a branch has more than one hyperlink.
Recurring Publicly Significant Event Seed Branch
MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways…
Image: Event Icon
Most events have an associated icon image – ‘national days’ have the country’s flag, official UN Observances have the UN flag, religeous observances have a bespoke icon for the religeon. Other types of events don’t have one.
Note(s)
i) Each event icons was originally is a 24 x 24 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size.
Text: Event Title & Type
Richly formatted text string of the name by which the event is commonly known in bold and some basic information on the ‘type’ of event it is in smaller, normal font below. The ‘type’ is one (or sometimes more) of the following…
Note(s)
i) Our general calendars record events that occur regularly, usually once a year. An asterisk (*) after the name indicates the event does not occur on the same date each year eg. 3rd monday in May.
ii) For ‘national day’ events the full ISO3166-1 codes are included for completeness e.g. Grenada (GD – GRD – 308).
iii) There is a balance between some additional information to help the user place the event in context, and overloading the branch with too much information that visually overwhelms the user.
iv) More contextual information about the event is provided by index marker tags.
Attached Note: Event description
This provides brief contextual knowledge about the event around it’s timing and significance, which will probably be adapted from a Wikipedia article (which will be linked to). Timing can be…
Note(s)
i) Further information about the event will be found on the attached hyperlinks to the free, online public domain knowledge resources about them. Further information about the occurrence of the event in terms of more culturally relevant calendars can usually be found on the Wikipedia page.
Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
Arranged in groups and attached to branches as required, index marker tags…
The inder marker tags attached to this seed topic are from the following groups…
EVENTS – Date Fix – How the date of the event is fixed. Is it always on a specific date (eg. ‘May Day’ is aways on May 1st), or does it vary relative to the calendar month (eg. the ‘May Day Pubic Holiday’ in the UK is on ‘the first monday in May’, whatever date that is) or the lunar cycle? 3 tags – Fixed, Variable (Calendar) and Variable (Lunar).
EVENTS – Astronomical – Predicatably recurring significant events in the annual machinations of Planet Earth that are beyond our control, but nonetheless have influence over all our societies…
EVENTS – International – Internationally significant public events of the following ‘types’…
Note(s)
i) Events can have more than one of these tags.
EVENTS – National Days – The day on which an ISO3166-1 designated country publicly celebrates it’s nationhood may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (such as a birthday, accession, or removal). The national day is often a public holiday. Many countries celebrate more than one national day, whilst a small number don’t celebrate any. By linking through to Wikipedia articles about the country (and the public holidays if available) we want to celebrate the range of national cultures withinyour circle of family, friends and colleagues. In these days of globalisation us citizens of the world have never mixed together as friends, neighbours, colleagues & lovers to the extent we do now, so anything that increases our mutual understanding of where we’ve all come from and where (and when) we all want to go next, can only be welcomed. – 249 tags (one for each ISO3166-1 country).
Note(s)
i) There are a handful of non-sovereign countries for which no ‘national days’ could be found.
ii) Sometimes the CIA factbook listed several ‘national days’ so after further research we made an executive decision which one to list.
Wikipedia often, but not always, has an article on the national day itself. This is linked to if it could be found.
iii) Wikipedia usually has an article (or section of article) listing public holidays for each country. This is also linked to on the branch if it could be found.
EVENTS – GEO – UN Geoscheme – Devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the UN Geoscheme divides the countries of the world into ‘standard’ regional (‘continental’) and sub-regional (‘sub-continental’) groups, with standard names and numeric codes:-
By using tags from this group in conjunction with those from ‘EVENTS -GEO-ISO3166-1′ the map can be’ geo-filtered’ to show only events from particlar ‘places’.
Note(s)
i) Users should be aware that as far as the United Nations Statistics Division classification of international regions and sub-regions is concerned, “the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories”. As such it can sometimes be counter-intuitive eg. Cyprus (CP – CYP – 196) is classified as being part of Western Asia, not Europe, whilst the Russian Federation (RU – RUS – 643) is part of Eastern Europe, not Asia.
EVENTS – GEO – ISO3166-1 – ISO3166: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions comes in 3 parts…
By using tags from this group in conjunction with those from ‘EVENTS -GEO-UN Geoscheme’ the map can be’ geo-filtered’ to show only events from particlar ‘places’. This group can also apply to international events that have a national focus eg. Chinese New Year. – 249 tags (one for each ISO3166-1 country).
Note(s)
i) Updates to ISO 3166-1 are posted in official newsletters on the ISO3166 website. Note that updates occur very infrequently (there’s also a handy update history here).
ii) Although many countries on the ISO3166-1 list are Dependent States & Territories, it does not include all dependent territories and possessions of a particular Sovereign State ie. a dependent territory is not automatically classed as a separate country.
iii) Similarly the ISO3166-1 list does include some Countries whose status as a Sovereign State is in dispute eg. the short name of the Republic of China (TW – TWN – 158) is listed as “Taiwan, Province of China”, but not all de-facto states eg. Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic “Transnistria” (a de facto independent state inside Moldova).
iv) The ‘Short Name’ listed on the ISO3166-1 webpage is sometimes actually the long name. Sometimes this is to minimise confusion between States with similar names eg. the official short name listed for the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville (CG – COG – 178) is “Congo” whilst that for The Democratic Republic of the Congo (CD – COD – 180) is “Congo, The Democratic Republic of the”. In other instances however there is no obvious reason eg. Islamic Republic of Iran (IR – IRN – 364) is listed as “Iran, Islamic Republic of “, rather than simply “Iran”, or Syrian Arab Republic (SY – SYR – 760) listed as “Syrian Arab Republic”, rather than simply “Syria”, which are the official short names cited in other sources eg. Wikipedia list of countries. Note also that sometimes the official long name is the same as the short name.
EVENTS – GB – Annually recurring events of national public significance specifically in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 3 tags – General Civil, National Patron Saints Day and Public Holidays.
EVENTS – GEO – ISO3166-2-GB – Official codes for the sub-national divisions of the United Kingdom, which is quite a complex entity in terms of geographies. As well as the 4 individual ‘home nations’ they are also combined in different ways. 7 tags – United Kingdom (GB-UKM), Great Britain (GB-GBN), England (GB-ENG), England and Wales (GB-EAW), Northern Ireland (GB-NIR), Scotland (GB-SCT) and Wales (GB-WLS).
Note(s)
i) Each of the 4 home nations has further subdivisions as part of ISO 3166-2-GB but these are not included in the group as they are not relevant in the context of ‘geo-tagging’ of ‘national’ events…
Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain..
ii) Within MindManager, tags…
Attached Hyperlinks: Various – See next section for full details
Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch
One of our philosophies at KnowledgeMappers is not to reinvent the wheel. whenever possible. Thus we include hyperlinks to original official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge sources whenever possible, as well as links to Wikipedia pages for additional, “bigger picture” context (often not obvious, or even absent from, the original source). By doing this…
The following knowledge resource links are attached to this seed branch (arranged in alphabetical order within the groupings)…
International Civil / Awareness Day / Religeous Observance Knowledge Resource Links
Official ‘Day’ Website – Many (but by no means all) awareness days at the international level have an associated website as their main purpose is often to campaign for some sort of social change. The Other types of events usually do not have an ‘official’ website.
Wikipedia: International Day – Just about all international days will have a main article about them on Wikipedia (or perhaps at least a sub-section within another article, often about the sponsoring organisation). As usual with Wikipedia articles there may be some additional knowledge and external links to other resources that may not be on the ‘official’ website. For astronomical events there will only be a link to the Wikipedia article about it.
National Days Knowledge Resource Links
Note(s)
i) MindManager has the unique ability to have multiple hyperlinks attached to a single map branch, and to edit the default title text of the link to make it more meaningful to the user. This…
The chain icon at the end of a branch (rather than the favicon (logo icon) served by the linked-to website) indicates where a branch has more than one hyperlink.
Knowledge seed branches provide a ‘base level’ of contextual knowledge about the subject embedded within, or attached to, them in the form of…
Image [Embedded] – Such as thumbnail location maps, flags, icons, people profile pictures etc., which provide a unique visual element that users can instantly latch on to as they navigate their way through the map.
Text [Embedded] – Rich (ie. variably formatted) branch text – such as names & unique identifying codes (taken from official sources) – is a unique MindManager feature.
Note [Attached] – Contains supplementary information with all the elements of a word processed page – variably formatted (‘rich’) text, tables and images.
Spreadsheet Table / Chart [Embedded] – Containing contextual facts & figures, which can be toggled between table and chart view as appropriate (once again unique to MindManager).
Multiple Single Data Fields [Embedded] – Another way of adding contextual facts & figures to the map (once again unique to MindManager), these are like single cells in a spreadsheet and the values can be used to format the topic.
Index Marker Tags [Attached] – Arranged in groups and added to individual branches as appropriate, tags add contextual knowledge, enable map filtering and navigation.
Multiple Hyperlinks [Attached] – Another unique feature, multiple links to a range of official definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources about the subject of the seed branch – usually selected from the full range of general & geographic knowledge resource collections – help turn the map into a knowledge portal without adding to the visual clutter.
All the seed branches and their associated embedded / attached contextual knowledge elements used in this map are described in detail below…
Recurring Significant International Public Events Knowledge Resource Link Collection
This collection contains multiple links to official / definitive / ‘plain old useful’ knolwedge resources about 500+ annually recurring events that will be of public significance no matter where you are in this ‘globalised world’…
Astronomical Events – Predicatably recurring significant events in the annual machinations of Planet Earth that are beyond our control, but nonetheless have influence over all our societies…
Moon Phases – The phases of the moon recurring each lunar month. 4 phases marked…
New Moon
First Quarter Moon,
Full Moon
Third Quarter Moon.
Equinoxes – The point when the equatorial plane of Planet Earth is exactly parallel with that of the Sun, as the rataional axis of the planet prcesses in it’s own annual cycle. 2 equinoxes in March & September.
Solstices – When the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly point on the horizon during the same process. This marks the beginning of the end of summer or winter depending on the hemisphere you are on. 2 solstices in June & December.
Awareness Days – These are officially organised by persons or organisations for the purposes of celebration, education and action. Celebration of past achievements in a particular area of human endeavour, education about problems and barriers that still exist in the world, and the action needed to be taken by everybody to tackle them. We have filed these under the following (not necessarily mutually exclusive) catagories…
General Civil Observances – A ‘catch all’ category of events that are generally observed in a society each year. Some may be ‘officially’ designated by the church or state, whilst the origins of others may be more obscure. Whatever, their observance is part of the civic year. Some may be observed in public on the streets with parties and a sense of ‘joi de vivre’, whilst others it is just at home with family & friends.
Religeous Observances – Major religeous festivals are often public holidays in countries where the religeon is significant. Even when it isn’t, they will be significant in the lives of your friends and colleagues who practice it. The major observances of the following religeons are included in our calendar maps…
Buddhism
Christianity (‘Eastern’)
Christianity (‘Western’)
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Note(s)
i) In some religeons the observance begins at sunset on the previous day.
ii) In many religeous observances the date is determined by astronomical factors as well as scripture eg. the first full moon after such and such a date.
United Nations Official Observances – The UN has designated days, weeks, years, and decades for observance to promote international awareness on significant issues and provide a springboard for awareness-raising actions by the organizations & offices of the UN system, governments, civil society, the public and private sectors, schools, universities and just general citizens around the world.
‘National Day’ of ISO3166-1 Country of the World – The day on which an ISO3166-1 designated country publicly celebrates it’s nationhood. It may be the date of independence, of becoming a republic, or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (such as a birthday, accession, or removal). The national day is often a public holiday. Many countries celebrate more than one national day, whilst a small number don’t celebrate any. By linking through to Wikipedia articles about the country (and the public holidays if available) we want to celebrate the range of national cultures withinyour circle of family, friends and colleagues. In these days of globalisation us citizens of the world have never mixed together as friends, neighbours, colleagues & lovers to the extent we do now, so anything that increases our mutual understanding of where we’ve all come from and where (and when) we all want to go next, can only be welcomed
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