https://khattamicah.xyz/tags/_index/Recent content in Archives on khattamicahHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USmicah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://khattamicah.xyz/iiif-images/Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/iiif-images/A few attempts have been made to simplify the IIIF archive with different opinionshttps://khattamicah.xyz/index/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/index/Published in Compost Digital (Issue 1), this is a group reflection on a project run in Bidar, India, to set up a community mesh network. Facilitated by Living Labs Network and Forum, Team YUVAA, and Janastu Servelots, the local mesh network was designed to act as an intranet of local informal archives- with tools like Papad running on the network- that would collectively function as a knowledge network. This work is part of a broader arc of community network writing and feeds into the principles we distilled around Community Owned Wifi-Mesh.https://khattamicah.xyz/papad/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/papad/In the course of time and work in the humanities that Janastu had been engaged in for over 2 decades, the need for a tool that caters to oral traditions became evident. Where Milli approached archival annotation through metadata and text and IIIF addressed image archives, Papad focused on audio as the primary medium. Over a span of six years, Papad was developed on limited budgets typically available to NGOs in India.https://khattamicah.xyz/milli-platform-international-archives-week/Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/milli-platform-international-archives-week/At International Archives Week 2021, I presented the designs for the Milli platform- demonstrating its capabilities for collaborative discovery, annotation, and re-narration of archival knowledge to over 25 organisational stakeholders across India. The presentation was part of a workshop titled “Ways of Seeing: Archives and Annotations”, where we showed how the W3C Web Annotation standard could be used to layer community interpretations onto institutional archival records, enabling multiple narratives to coexist around the same materials.https://khattamicah.xyz/milli/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/milli/In the video, the team demos the tool, and I discuss the platform design with the participants. (2:03:00 - 2:12:00) A fuller account of this presentation is available in the [Milli at International Archives Week](https://khattamicah.xyz/milli-platform-international-archives-week/) write-up. The Process Milli started as a platform to connect different archives to each other and open them up to annotation. A sibling project, Papad, tackled a similar challenge for oral and audio archives in rural communities.ons work well with other tools commonly used by the collectives?e in collective care during crisis – the kind of mutual-aid practice I later examined in Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices. Every tool choice, from the spreadsheet backend to the Glide app frontend, was guided by the constraints we developed for selecting tools in Indian collectives.https://khattamicah.xyz/the-disenfranchisement-of-adivasis-in-kerala/Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000micah.dvpp7@aleeas.com (Micah Alex)https://khattamicah.xyz/the-disenfranchisement-of-adivasis-in-kerala/“When people say it has been 60 years of India’s liberation, I find it difficult to believe, for we are still slaves, working for others, picking up human excreta with our bare hands.” Kala bai Lavre, a manual scavenger This literature review provides insights into various aspects of the Paniya tribe, covering topics such as population, caste names and structures in Wayanad, periods of Paniya history, inter-tribal disparity, work and employment for Adivasis, alienation through the education system, public perceptions, plantation economy, exclusion from the financial system, and health issues.d into the nuances of caste-based power structures and their implications on education, community life, and infrastructure.