Held in common. Built to endure.
Learn about SikhArchive’s open-access mission, community contributions and preservation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji on the Arweave permaweb.
Beyond the lifespan
of a website.↗
Manuscripts can be lost. Servers can disappear.
The archive’s answer is an enduring record: the complete Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji preserved on the Arweave permaweb.
Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar
William Carpenter · 1854
Preservation begins with a traceable record: a work, its creator, a date and a source that future readers can return to.
- SOURCE
- V&A collection · via Wikimedia Commons
- RIGHTS
- Public domain, as catalogued by Wikimedia Commons.
Built in the open.
The Sikh Library AI Project
@jsdosanj · Co-founded with Sikhi.io. He built and maintains the Sikh Library AI Project, published openly on Hugging Face using the Sikhi.io core methodology; the archive’s digitised corpus forms the bulk of its research material.
Mahan Kosh Multilingual Project
@gurpreet-fe · Built and maintains the Mahan Kosh Multilingual Project. The whole dictionary packaged as an open dataset: downloadable, citable, and licensed for reuse. 64,218 entries live, 26 languages, one JSON file per language (≈430 MB on disk), licensed CC BY 4.0. Source text public domain (1930); the machine-translated languages have not been reviewed by native speakers or subject scholars, a limitation recorded in the dataset’s own licence file.
Held in common.
Self-funded at its outset, now sustained in part by dasvand. No advertising. No paywalls. No fee to the reader.
Translators, historians, developers and readers all have a place in this undertaking.
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