| Entry |
A top-level unit of knowledge: a Plant, Practice, Recipe, Story, Word/Phrase, or Place. |
| Claim |
An atomic, attributable assertion within an entry (e.g. "the leaves are brewed as a tea for coughs"). The smallest thing that can have a source, a consent level and a review status. |
| Source |
Where a claim comes from: a published work, a dataset, or a contributor/community. |
| Contributor |
A person who adds or edits content. |
| Knowledge holder |
A person or community that holds traditional or indigenous knowledge. May also be a contributor. |
| Custodian |
A person or body with recognised authority over a specific language or body of knowledge (e.g. a language custodian). |
| Community |
A group with shared cultural identity and authority over its knowledge. Self-identified and, over time, verified. |
| Consent record |
A durable record of what a contributor/community agreed to for a claim: visibility, attribution, AI-use, duration. |
| Visibility tier |
public, community, custodian, or sacred — who may see a claim. |
ai_use |
Per-record permission: none, retrieval_only, or training_allowed. Defaults to the most restrictive. |
| TK Label |
A Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge / Biocultural label attached by a community to signal protocols for use. |
| IKS |
Indigenous Knowledge Systems. |
| Provenance |
The full chain of origin and change for a claim. |
| Agent |
A purpose-built AI component with a defined job and defined limits (see AI agents). |
| Verifier |
The agent/human process that checks a claim against sources and safety data before publication. |
| Harvest-sensitive species |
A species where publishing exact locations risks over-collection (e.g. threatened medicinal plants). Locations are blurred. |
| ADR |
Architecture Decision Record. |
| SADiLaR |
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources. |
| SANBI |
South African National Biodiversity Institute. |
| POPIA |
Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013. |
| SASL |
South African Sign Language, an official language since 2023. |