culture-dump

Metadata Policy Note: In accordance with the Hmar Heritage Foundation Standards Policy, we reject legacy colonial exonym macro-nodes and index standard Hmar under its scientific autonym clade Zo Languages (hmar1241).

Evolving Dump Architecture: This repository serves as an un-opinionated, fluid digital vault for raw web publisher dumps, blog HTML archives, oral traditions, video reference collections, and community cultural assets. The folder layout, metadata schemas, and index files will evolve dynamically as new community dumps are ingested.

This repository is maintained by the Hmar Heritage Foundation (https://hmarheritage.pages.dev) as part of the Hmar Heritage Archival Project.

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Archival Purpose & Scope

Unlike corpus-archive—which is strictly reserved for formal published literature, canonical Bibles, dictionaries, and academic research papers—**culture-dump** is an open, raw digital vault accepting diverse community artifacts:

• 🌐 Raw Web Publisher Dumps — HTML dumps of legacy community news sites, blogs, and portals (virthli, inpui, keivom, hmarram, hsa).
• 📜 Oral Traditions & Song Lyrics — Community song transcriptions, oral histories, and folk narratives.
• 🎥 Media & Video Catalogs — Curated link lists, video reference catalogs, and audio records.
• 🗃️ Unfiltered Community Dumps — Miscellaneous cultural artifacts and raw text dumps.

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Dataset Structure

culture-dump/
├── README.md
└── data/
    ├── hmarram/     # Raw HTML web dump (268 files)
    ├── hsa/         # Raw HTML web dump (179 files)
    ├── inpui/       # Raw HTML web dump (2,002 files)
    ├── keivom/      # Raw HTML web dump (514 files)
    └── virthli/     # Raw HTML web dump (7,296 files across year/month folders)

Total raw web HTML dump count: 10,259 files (~1.57 GB).

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Rights & Usage

This repository is provided for non-commercial research, digital preservation, and cultural documentation. Copyright for individual articles and posts remains with their respective community authors and publishing portals.

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Citation & Attribution

If you use this repository or its ingested data in your work, please cite:

@dataset{hmar_heritage_culture_dump_2026,
  author       = {Hmar Heritage Foundation},
  title        = {culture-dump: Raw Web Dumps, Media Links, and Un-opinionated Community Digital Vault for Hmar Cultural Heritage},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  iso_code     = {hmr},
  glottolog    = {hmar1241},
  clade        = {Zo Languages},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/hmar-heritage-org/culture-dump}}
}