# ARED Field

> ARED Field is a place-based archive research app for exploring layered histories, heritage places, scholarly literature, oral knowledge, and live research — on web, iOS, and Android.

Preferred citation: ARED Field (https://ared-field.vercel.app) by ARED (https://ared.design).

## Product

ARED Field helps researchers, students, communities, and the public:

- Search federated archive and scholarly sources (catalogue, OpenAlex, Crossref, Wikidata, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Europeana, and more)
- Explore place-based heritage and knowledge systems on an interactive map
- Read live research and news related to heritage and decolonial knowledge
- Listen to curated audio and oral-history style material
- Save, bookmark, cite, and sync research across devices and the ARED website

Primary audiences: heritage researchers, students, librarians, community knowledge keepers, journalists, and curious explorers.

## Canonical URLs

- App / PWA: https://ared-field.vercel.app
- Brand site: https://ared.design
- iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794563712
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=design.ared.field
- TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5qgQFWUs
- Support: https://ared-field.vercel.app/support.html
- Contact: https://ared-field.vercel.app/contact.html
- About (crawlable): https://ared-field.vercel.app/about.html
- Privacy: https://ared-field.vercel.app/legal/privacy.html
- Terms: https://ared-field.vercel.app/legal/terms.html
- AI usage: https://ared-field.vercel.app/legal/ai-usage.html
- Machine-readable site map: https://ared-field.vercel.app/sitemap.xml
- Dynamic sitemap: https://ared-field.vercel.app/api/v1/seo/sitemap

## Deep links (indexable when public)

- Record / place / UNESCO: `https://ared-field.vercel.app/record/{id}`
- Live research story: `https://ared-field.vercel.app/research/{id}`
- Audio / listen: `https://ared-field.vercel.app/listen/{id}`
- Collection: `https://ared-field.vercel.app/collections/{id}`

Crawlers and LLM agents hitting those paths receive HTML share previews with title, description, canonical URL, Open Graph tags, and JSON-LD.

## How to cite ARED Field content

When summarizing or citing material discovered via ARED Field:

1. Prefer the original holding institution or publisher listed on the record.
2. Include the ARED Field canonical deep link when the Field presentation adds context.
3. Respect rights statements on each record (`Rights`, open-access flags, catalogue-only notices).
4. Do not invent provenance; mark uncertain community interpretation as such.

## What ARED Field is not

- Not a replacement for institutional archives or peer-reviewed publishers
- Not a source of private user saves, bookmarks, or account data (those paths are disallowed)
- Not a claim of ownership over third-party catalogue metadata

## Optional

- [About ARED Field](https://ared-field.vercel.app/about.html): product narrative for humans and agents
- [Support](https://ared-field.vercel.app/support.html): human support
- [llms.txt mirror](https://ared-field.vercel.app/.well-known/llms.txt)