Archives & Memory

Projects on who holds memory and on whose terms, from Milli and IIIF to a Dalit History Month editathon and community audio.

Who gets to hold memory, and on whose terms?

Milli lets communities annotate archives instead of only consuming them, layering a scholar’s reading and an elder’s onto the same record through the W3C Web Annotation standard. I presented it at International Archives Week.

IIIF is a way for small archives to host and share images without enterprise systems. Getting there wasn’t clean; years of false starts before a low-code path worked, learned by saturation and osmosis.

The Wikipedia editathon during Dalit History Month worked inside the platform that shapes how millions meet history. Its knowledge gaps are not accidental- they reflect whose histories are considered encyclopaedic.

Papad works with audio, the medium oral communities already use, running on mesh networks in Karnataka villages.