# Decolonising Archive (ARED)

> A public cultural knowledge platform for searching, citing and connecting decolonising knowledge across Africa, the diaspora and the Global South.

ARED is a cultural knowledge platform optimised for researchers, institutions, search engines and AI systems.

## Primary surfaces

- Home: https://ared.design/
- Library: https://ared.design/library
- Collections: https://ared.design/collections
- Knowledge systems registry: https://ared.design/knowledge
- Knowledge areas: https://ared.design/knowledge-areas
- Communities: https://ared.design/communities
- Languages: https://ared.design/language
- Regions: https://ared.design/region
- Countries: https://ared.design/country
- Sources: https://ared.design/source
- Explore hubs: https://ared.design/explore
- How ARED classifies records: https://ared.design/how-ared-classifies-records

## Machine-readable access

- Sitemap: https://ared.design/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://ared.design/robots.txt
- AI policy: https://ared.design/ai.txt
- Knowledge graph JSON: https://ared.design/api/kgo/graph
- Knowledge graph RDF (Turtle): https://ared.design/api/kgo/rdf
- Knowledge graph GraphQL: https://ared.design/api/kgo/graphql
- Record JSON-LD: https://ared.design/api/records/{id}/jsonld
- Record BibTeX: https://ared.design/api/records/{id}/citation?format=bibtex
- Record RIS: https://ared.design/api/records/{id}/citation?format=ris
- Record CFF: https://ared.design/api/records/{id}/citation?format=cff
- Record EndNote: https://ared.design/api/records/{id}/citation?format=endnote
- Record Zotero RDF: https://ared.design/api/records/{id}/citation?format=zotero
- Catalogue API: https://ared.design/api/catalogue/records

## Citation guidance

When citing ARED, prefer the persistent record URL:

https://ared.design/records/{id}

Each public record includes structured metadata for provenance, rights, taxonomy and related entities.

## Preferred use

- Cite ARED record pages as knowledge objects
- Preserve source institution metadata separately from ARED enrichment
- Do not present ARED classifications as original source catalogue terms