India's first cultural heritage preservation initiative documenting the endangered food culture and culinary heritage of West Bengal's indigenous communities โ Santal, Toto, Rajbangshi, Mech, Lodha, Rabha, Garo, and beyond.
A WebGIS platform built with Emergent AI โ explore 97 geocoded food entries across West Bengal's tribal belts with multi-layer contextual data.
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154 Video Recipes
The Tribe Family Cooking YouTube dataset โ 154 Santhali recipe videos including rare Mahua wine, Red Ant (Kurkut) curry, Frog cooking, and more.
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Multi-Layer Architecture
From spatial ecology to sacred offerings to 9,000-year origin histories โ the most structurally complex ethnographic dataset for West Bengal tribal foodways.
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Community-Authored
Incorporating first-person testimony from community contributors across multiple indigenous communities of West Bengal.
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Data Sovereignty
Non-extractive AI guardrails, Data Shield licensing, and Indigenous data sovereignty protocols protect community knowledge from commercial exploitation.
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Sustainability-First
Engineered to the Endings Project's five-component framework โ graceful degradation, static-web architecture, and distributed archiving for 50-year longevity.
๐ฎ๐ณ India's First Initiative of Its Kind โ This is the first-ever attempt to build a structured digital humanities archive specifically focused on the indigenous food and culinary cultural heritage of West Bengal's tribal communities, integrating spatial data, oral testimony, historical origins, and multimedia documentation under a single platform.
Data Architecture
The Multi-Layer Data System
Every entry in the archive is documented across multiple structured layers, organised in two tiers โ 13 primary layers capturing what a tradition is today, and Layer 14 capturing where it came from.
L1 ยท District & EcologyL2 ยท Community IdentityL3 ยท Ethnobotanical DataL4 ยท Culinary TechnologyL5 ยท Temporal ContextL6 ยท Cultural MemoryL7 ยท Archival SourcesL8 ยท Lost TraditionsL9 ยท Sacred FoodsL10 ยท Medicinal ValueL11 ยท Cultural SignificanceL12 ยท Geo-LocationL13 ยท Image Reference
โ L14 ยท Historical Origins (L14aโL14g)
A Community Digital Humanities initiative preserving endangered culinary heritage through multi-layer deep archiving
Project Brief
Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals
Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals is India's first community digital humanities project dedicated exclusively to preserving the endangered food culture and culinary heritage of West Bengal's indigenous communities. The project was conceived and executed during a summer research internship at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, under the mother project HS02: Mapping of Regional Cuisines โ Food and Cultural Studies.
The archive documents the food traditions of the Santal, Toto, Rajbangshi, Mech, Lodha, Rabha, Garo, Kheria Sabar, Oraon, Gorkha, Limbu, Bhutia, Birhor, and over twenty other communities โ traditions that have remained invisible in mainstream Indian culinary historiography, occluded behind an urban, dominant-caste bias that even the most encyclopedic print works reproduce.
The project's WebGIS platform was built through prompt engineering and vibe coding on Emergent AI, an agentic multi-agent development platform. This website was developed using Claude Sonnet 4.6, an AI by Anthropic.
๐ IIST Thiruvananthapuram๐ Summer 2026๐ค AI-Assisted DH๐ฌ Digital Humanities
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Project Objectives
โฆ Build the first multi-layer digital humanities archive of West Bengal tribal foodways
โฆ Preserve endangered culinary knowledge through community-authored documentation
โฆ Integrate WebGIS, deep mapping, and multi-layer ethnographic data
โฆ Establish long-term digital sustainability through the Endings Project framework
โฆ Protect Indigenous data sovereignty with non-extractive AI guardrails
โฆ Democratise access through open-access, multilingual, screen-reader-compatible design
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By the Numbers
97 Food Entries
7+ Communities
10 Districts Covered
154 Video Recipes
37 Academic Sources
2026 Initiative Year
Methodology
How We Built It
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Digital Ethnography
Following O'Reilly's iterative-inductive framework, treating digital sources โ YouTube videos, API data, Google Forms responses โ not as raw data but as mediated social practices. Christine Hine's internet ethnography methodology guided our multi-register approach.
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YouTube API Mining
Deployed the YouTube Data API v3 to extract 154 long-form Santhali recipe videos and 5 Shorts from the Tribe Family Cooking channel โ including rare Mahua wine, Red Ant (Kurkut) curry, Frog cooking, and Eel fish preparations.
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OCR Extraction
Using Tesseract and EasyOCR in Python to extract 10 exclusive recipes from Joseph Rozario's rare monograph Untouched North Bengal (Darpan Publication, 2015) โ including the Mech Dibouli Bidot pork pulao and Toto Yashai Nayako leaf-parcel fish.
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Community Crowdsourcing
A structured Google Form designed around the multi-layer framework, building a bridge between digital methodologies and living indigenous communities across West Bengal's tribal belts.
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Emergent AI Vibe Coding
Full-stack WebGIS application built through prompt engineering on Emergent AI's five-agent platform (Architect, Designer, Developer, Integration, Product Manager agents). React + MapLibre frontend, Python FastAPI backend, MongoDB database โ 100% test coverage achieved.
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Deep Mapping
Following Roberts (2016), Springett (2015), and Wood (2015), each geocoded entry opens as a vertical cross-section of place โ holding spatial, ethnobotanical, folkloric, sacred, medicinal, and 9,000-year historical origin data simultaneously.
๐ The Historiographical Void This Project Addresses
Despite exhaustive works like K. T. Achaya's Indian Food: A Historical Companion (1994) and Chitrita Banerji's Eating India (2007) โ two landmark texts in Indian culinary historiography โ there is virtually zero documented data regarding the vernacular foodways of West Bengal's indigenous communities. The complex foraging ecologies, zero-waste ethnobotanical survival foods, and sacred agrarian offerings of Bengal's forest belts remain entirely unindexed in mainstream culinary literature.
The Pratichi Institute and Asiatic Society's 2018 survey of 1,000 tribal households documents the urgency: 31% face food scarcity, the average life expectancy is 58 years (12 below state average), and forest degradation has replaced diverse ethnobotanical diets with PDS-rationed white rice, creating measurable nutritional deficits. This project responds to that emergency with a digital archive designed to preserve irreplaceable knowledge before it disappears entirely.
โฐPlease note: The interactive map is hosted on a free-tier platform. The environment may go to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity and takes approximately 20 seconds to wake up when first visited. If the map appears blank, please wait a moment and refresh. We appreciate your patience โ this is a non-funded academic initiative. Built with Emergent AI, an AI-powered software platform.
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97 Geocoded Entries
Precise latitude/longitude coordinates for every food tradition mapped to its community and ecological zone across West Bengal.
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3 PVTG Communities
The Toto of Alipurduar, Lodha of South Bengal, and Birhor โ West Bengal's Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups โ receive special archival priority.
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14 Filter Layers
Filter by community, ecology type, food category, sacred status, medicinal use, PVTG designation, and more โ all powered by useArchive.js.
๐ฑ This Archive Is Always Growing
We are always looking for cookbooks, family and community recipes, ethnographic accounts, and food stories from tribal communities. If you wish to contribute to our archives, do get in touch โ we would love to have your knowledge as a part of this community heritage preservation initiative. Every entry makes a difference in preserving what might otherwise be lost forever.
Community food videos, documentaries, and social media content from West Bengal's tribal communities
Multimedia Archive
Food Recipes Media Collection
These videos and social media posts were gathered through digital ethnographic research as living documentation of indigenous culinary practices โ treated as primary data, not merely illustrative supplements.
๐ Note on Dataset: The videos above represent additional media collected through digital ethnographic methods from Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Recipe names were identified through content analysis where not explicitly stated in video titles. The complete Tribe Family Cooking YouTube dataset of 154 recipe videos is also documented โ Browse all 154 videos โ
Press, journalism, and public media documentation of the project
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Media Coverage โ Coming Soon
Press coverage and media documentation for this project will be updated here as they become available. We are an ongoing initiative โ follow us on social media for the latest updates.
Conferences, seminars, journal submissions, and academic dissemination
Academic Dissemination
Conference Acceptance
๐ Academic Outreach: We are proud of the academic recognition this project has received and look forward to many more opportunities ahead โ this is just the beginning of our journey. We will keep updating this section with new milestones, presentations, publications, and collaborations as this project continues to grow.
โ ACCEPTED FOR PRESENTATION
Academic Conference & World Folklore Day Celebration 2026
Event:Academic Conference & World Folklore Day Celebration 2026
Organisers:Centre for Folk Culture Studies (CFCS), University of Hyderabad & Centre for Folklore Studies and Research (CFSR)
Theme:"Researching and Reactivating Folklore: Tradition in a Changing World"
Dates:August 20โ23, 2026
Venue:University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Status:โ Accepted
Presenter:Simanta Nandi, Research Intern, IIST Thiruvananthapuram
Masters Scholar in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad (IIT Dhanbad), Jharkhand
Summer Research Intern โ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS),
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Simanta conceptualised and executed the Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals project โ designing the multi-layer data architecture, building the WebGIS prototype through Emergent AI vibe coding, conducting the digital ethnographic research, and integrating OCR extraction, YouTube API mining, and community crowdsourcing into a single archival pipeline.
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Dr. Gigy J. Alex brings expertise in cultural and food studies to this project, providing invaluable intellectual mentorship and academic guidance that shaped the archive's depth and scholarly rigour.
Extraordinary individuals whose contributions made this archive possible
With Deepest Gratitude
Chef Joseph Rozario
MasterChef India Contestant ยท Culinary Pioneer
Chef Joseph Rozario
Director Chef, JR Hospitality Pvt. Ltd., North Bengal
Author โ Untouched North Bengal: Cook Book (Darpan Publication, 2015)
A renowned chef and culinary educator who represents the gold standard of authentic North Bengal tribal cuisine preservation through both practice and print.
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Life After MasterChef India
Over the years, Joseph Rozario has grown as both a chef and a person. He joined a 5-star property โ the Renaissance Conventional Centre and Hotel in Mumbai, a prestigious JW Marriott property โ where his skills were consistently appreciated by senior chefs. Polishing his culinary expertise at the highest level, Joseph then served as Executive Chef at Hotel Sinclairs, Siliguri, a 3-star property, making him the youngest Executive Chef in North Bengal at the time.
He then found solace in teaching the art of cooking to young people at Modi Public School, a joint-venture culinary arts programme for children. Joseph became a partnership member with Inspiria Knowledge Campus for a Culinary Certification Course for adults, and โ recognising his responsibility toward society โ associated himself with an NGO in Damdim where he teaches culinary arts to underprivileged children. He endorses the tea brand Riddhi Siddhi Green Tea and has appeared in television commercials for various brands.
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His Contribution to This Archive
We are deeply grateful to Chef Joseph Rozario for his extraordinary generosity in responding to our call for help in this โ the first initiative of its kind in India โ devoted to indigenous food cultural heritage preservation.
His monograph Untouched North Bengal: Cook Book (Darpan Publication, 2015) is the only published comprehensive record of North Bengal's tribal communities' cookbooks and culinary cultures, representing three years of dedicated field research. Through OCR extraction, we recovered 10 exclusive recipes from this rare text โ including the Mech Dibouli Bidot pork pulao, the Toto Yashai Nayako leaf-parcel fish, and the Rajbangshi Bhapa steam cake โ all of which appear nowhere else in the formal culinary record.
Chef Rozario generously provided a hardcopy of his book at no cost and has expressed willingness to permanently donate it to the IIST Library upon completion of the study. Without him, the North Bengal indigenous culinary layer of this archive would not exist.
Individuals who contributed through discussion, research, fieldwork, and community engagement
With Sincere Thanks
People Who Made a Difference
Community Networking & Research Support
Tushar Pal
Associate, Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) B.A. International Relations with Political Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Tushar played a crucial role in establishing the contact with Chef Joseph Rozario โ a connection that made the Untouched North Bengal archival extraction possible. His background in grassroots community engagement, strategic research, and social empowerment programmes (including roles as Campaign Head for ICDS and surveyor under Deendayal Antyodaya YojanaโNRLM) directly enriched the project's community outreach methodology. We owe the North Bengal layer of this archive to his networking and generosity.
Academic Consultation & Research Discussion
Meghna Basu
Ph.D. Research Scholar in English Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad (IIT Dhanbad), Jharkhand
Meghna Basu helped this project by providing access to some important research papers, which supported the scholarly work of this archive.
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To Everyone Who Helped
We are deeply grateful to all individuals who helped directly and indirectly โ through conversation, community engagement, crowdsourcing participation, research paper access, fieldwork connections, and moral support. Thank you all.
We sincerely acknowledge the support of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and its Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), for hosting and enabling this summer research internship and for institutional validation of a Digital Humanities initiative that is, in many ways, experimental and unprecedented. The department's willingness to invest in both methodological innovation and Indigenous cultural preservation reflects its commitment to socially relevant scholarship.
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Faculty Supervisor
Deepest gratitude is extended to Prof. Gigy J. Alex, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIST Thiruvananthapuram, for unwavering intellectual mentorship and the invaluable academic direction that shaped the archive's scope and ambition. Prof. Alex suggested adding multiple layers to the data architecture to accommodate all information about each food recipe โ from the tiniest detail to the biggest historical context โ so that nothing is ignored. This guidance will be very helpful for every user who goes through this project.
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Academic Community
We thank the scholars whose work forms the archive's theoretical foundation โ Les Roberts, Denis Wood, Selina Springett, Joanna Taylor and colleagues (deep mapping); K. T. Achaya, Chitrita Banerji (whose works, in revealing their own silences, validated the necessity of this project); Christine Hine, Karen O'Reilly, John Postill and Sarah Pink (digital ethnography); and the University of Victoria's Endings Project team for establishing the sustainability framework that this archive follows.
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Technology Acknowledgement
The WebGIS archive platform was built through prompt engineering and vibe coding on Emergent AI (emergent.sh), founded by Mukund and Madhav Jha, Y Combinator S24. This project website was developed using Claude Sonnet 4.6, an AI by Anthropic. We acknowledge both tools and their respective teams, and declare this AI assistance transparently as a methodological contribution to Community Digital Humanities practice rather than as invisible infrastructure.
Contribute to the archive โ reviews, blogs, data corrections, and community recipes
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Contribute a Review
Submit a scholarly review of books, archives, films, or documentaries related to tribal food heritage, Indigenous knowledge systems, or Digital Humanities.
Contribution Guidelines: We welcome scholarly reviews of books, archives, films, documentaries, or exhibitions related to tribal foodways, Indigenous knowledge systems, culinary heritage, or Digital Humanities.
โข Use MLA 9th edition format for the title and publication details at the top.
โข Review should be between 800โ1,200 words.
โข Your name, affiliation, and brief bio should appear at the bottom.
โข Upload your review as a Word document through the form below.
โข Submissions are reviewed editorially before publication. Responses within 3โ4 weeks.
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We are looking for thoughtful academic blogs on indigenous food culture and traditions, culinary heritage, Indigenous knowledge systems, Digital Humanities methodologies, and related subjects. Each blog should be approximately 800โ1,200 words. After submission, a thorough editorial review will be conducted before publication on this website. We particularly welcome voices from community members, field researchers, and scholars working at the intersection of food, culture, and technology.
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Found an error, missing information, or have additional data for an archive entry? Contributors are invited to submit corrections or additions using the structured sheet format. Please upload a spreadsheet (.xlsx, .csv, or .ods) indicating the Entry ID, the field(s) to be corrected, the current incorrect value, and the proposed correct value with supporting sources.
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Complete works cited, references, and scholarly sources used in this project
Academic Sources
Works Cited & References
The complete bibliography, works cited, and reference list for Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals โ covering 98 unique entries across tribal food studies, digital humanities theory, spatial humanities, and digital cultural heritage.
98 unique entries covering: Tribal Food Traditions (West Bengal), Food Studies Theory, Deep Mapping & Spatial Humanities, Digital Cultural Heritage, and GIS & Spatial Science.
Nandi, Simanta. Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals: A Multi-Layer Community Digital Humanities Archive of Indigenous Tribal Foodways in West Bengal. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, 2026, tinyurl.com/4ukxfv2n. Accessed [Day Month Year].
Nandi, S. (2026). Mapping memory, mapping meals: A multi-layer community digital humanities archive of indigenous tribal foodways in West Bengal [Digital archive]. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. https://tinyurl.com/4ukxfv2n
Nandi, Simanta. "Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals: A Multi-Layer Community Digital Humanities Archive of Indigenous Tribal Foodways in West Bengal." Digital archive. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, 2026. https://tinyurl.com/4ukxfv2n.
Nandi, S. (2026) Mapping memory, mapping meals: A multi-layer community digital humanities archive of indigenous tribal foodways in West Bengal. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/4ukxfv2n (Accessed: [Day Month Year]).
Academic blogs on indigenous food culture and traditions, culinary heritage, Digital Humanities, and Indigenous knowledge systems will appear here. Submit your blog to be featured.
How we ensure this archive lasts beyond its creators
Long-Term Preservation
Building a Sustainable Digital Humanities Archive
โ The Digital Dark Age: Despite thousands of digital projects launched in the past 20 years, experts warn of a new digital dark age as our ability to produce digital information continues to outpace our capacity to preserve and access that knowledge for the long haul. Most DH projects, dependent on boutique technologies and customised code, have an estimated lifespan of only 10 years before server decay renders them inaccessible.
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The Challenge
For Digital Humanities projects โ many based on boutique technologies and customised code โ the challenge of future-proofing is particularly pressing. To continue reaping the benefits of these projects, we must invest in workable processes and technologies ensuring user-friendly access for longer than the estimated 10-year lifespan of most current formats.
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The Endings Project Framework
The University of Victoria's Endings Project provides the sustainability framework for this archive. Their multidisciplinary team โ including research faculty, programmers, and digital librarians โ has developed practical strategies for concluding and preserving scholarly digital projects across a representative range of DH methodologies.
Endings Project Research Questions โ and Our Answers
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How do and how should DH projects conclude?
The dynamic nature of digital data lends itself to new possibilities, but projects โ even digital ones โ need to end. Our archive is engineered with a definitive "completion" state: instead of relying on a continuously running, expensive backend database requiring constant security updates, the final archive will be entirely static โ hosted on GitHub Pages with zero database maintenance cost. The project will "conclude" its development phase and enter a stable, maintenance-free preservation phase while remaining fully accessible.
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How should we preserve projects to retain their dynamic features?
By extrapolating from existing theoretical models and our own project implementation, we have developed programming strategies to maintain site usability and functionality. All data is stored as flat CSV and GeoJSON files โ readable without any proprietary software. The dynamic map features are handled entirely via client-side JavaScript (MapLibre) and static data files, meaning the site functions perfectly even if downloaded and opened locally on an offline computer.
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Where should projects be archived?
While university libraries are reliable repositories for static digital material, we need multiple repositories that can preserve the dynamic features of projects. Our strategy: GitHub Pages hosting (free, permanent, version-controlled), IIST institutional repository (formal academic preservation), Internet Archive (global distributed backup), and a single-file static package that any library can ingest. The GitHub organisation MappingMemoryMappingMeals serves as the primary institutional anchor, with administrative credentials shared with Prof. Gigy J. Alex at IIST.
๐ Endings Compliance: This archive follows the Endings Project's five-component framework โ Data (open standards, version control), Documentation (static files, IP documentation), Processing (reproducible pipelines), Products (no server-side dependence, HTML5/CSS/JS only), and Release Management (persistent URLs, build identifiers, citation instructions). Learn more at endings.uvic.ca/about.html.
Creative Commons licensing, Indigenous data sovereignty, and ethical frameworks
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
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The Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals archive is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. You are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon this material for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give appropriate credit to the project and source communities. Commercial use of this archive's content is not permitted without explicit written consent.
Credit must be given to Simanta Nandi and the Mapping Memory, Mapping Meals project in the manner specified. Do not imply endorsement. Include the licence notice and a link to this archive where possible.
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Under CC BY-NC 4.0 (as distinct from CC BY-NC-SA), derivative works do not need to carry the same licence. Adaptations may be licensed under different terms โ enabling maximum reuse in academic and community contexts, provided the use remains non-commercial.
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Commercial Use โ Not Permitted
Commercial use of this archive's content is not permitted under CC BY-NC 4.0. This archive is a non-commercial, non-funded academic initiative dedicated to community heritage preservation. For commercial licensing enquiries, please contact us directly at mappingmemory.contact@gmail.com.
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Adaptation โ Permitted
You may remix, transform, and build upon the material. Academic projects, digital humanities initiatives, and community archives are encouraged to adapt this dataset, methodology, and framework for their own regional applications.
Data Sovereignty
Indigenous Data Sovereignty & the Data Shield
โ Non-Extractive AI Clause: This archive implements a "Data Shield" โ modifications to robots.txt configuration, explicit non-AI-scraping licences embedded in repository root files, and open-source data-licensing scripts protecting indigenous content from commercial AI training. Corporate AI systems are explicitly prohibited from scraping this archive's indigenous knowledge to train Large Language Models without community consent. This represents a new form of digital sovereignty designed to prevent computational colonialism.
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CC BY-NC 4.0 and Indigenous Data Sovereignty โ Understanding the Tension
Creative Commons licensing and Indigenous data sovereignty can be in tension. CC BY-NC 4.0 permits broad reuse; Indigenous data sovereignty requires that communities control how their knowledge circulates. This archive resolves the tension as follows:
Entries marked as sacred or restricted are held in a non-public layer pending community consultation.
First-person community submissions are treated as the intellectual property of the contributor until explicit consent for archiving is given.
The CC BY-NC 4.0 licence applies to the project's scholarly apparatus (methodology, architecture, documentation) and to community-contributed data only where consent has been explicitly given.
The Data Shield non-scraping clause is an additional contractual restriction layered over the CC licence, protecting indigenous knowledge from AI training use cases not contemplated in traditional open-access frameworks.
For further reading on Creative Commons licensing, visit creativecommons.org.
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The complete Tribe Family Cooking channel dataset extracted via YouTube Data API v3. Each video documents authentic Santhali cooking methods, rare ingredients, and traditional food preparations passed down through generations.
