Reservoir documentation

Reservoir is a free, open, community-grown platform for preserving South African cultural knowledge. These docs are the project's shared memory while the code is still being born.

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I want to…	Read
Understand why this exists	Vision
Know what we will never compromise on	Principles
Learn the terms we use	Glossary
See who we are building for	Personas

Research

• Landscape and prior art
• Languages
• Data sources and licences
• Technology research
• Legal and ethics

Architecture

• System overview
• Data model
• Knowledge sovereignty (consent, visibility, AI-use)
• Safety model
• AI agents
• Plant identification
• Offline-first and sync
• Architecture Decision Records

Product

• MVP scope
• User journeys

Community and legal

• Language custodians
• Licensing

Project files

README · Roadmap · Contributing · Governance