Five steps turn one afternoon’s recording into permanent, community-owned memory.
Claim a Field Pass — your identity on the archive. No gatekeeping: a student, a traveller, or a community elder all carry the same key.
Sit with a community. Record a song, a dance, a craft, a dialect, a story — phone footage is enough. Consent of the keepers is logged with every upload.
The assistant transcribes and translates, identifies the language and region, checks for duplicates, and weaves your recording into the cultural knowledge graph.
Your contribution becomes a Heritage Tablet — a digital artifact with permanent provenance. The originating community is named as origin and co-owner.
Contributors earn $LORE. Whenever a Tablet is collected or referenced, royalties flow to the community fund — heritage that pays the people who keep it alive.
Each verified recording is sealed on the Lineage ledger as a Heritage Tablet — permanent provenance, the community named as origin, and royalties routed home. Collect one and you fund the people who keep the tradition alive.
Extraction is the old story of heritage. FirstCiv is built the other way around: consent is required, ownership stays with the community, and the money flows back to the people whose memory it is.
Nothing is recorded or minted without the documented consent of the community keepers. Consent is itself stored on-chain.
The originating community is named as origin and primary beneficiary of every Heritage Tablet — and can veto or withdraw a record.
70% of every collection and reference royalty flows to the community fund. Contributors earn, but the source earns more.
Provenance is public and immutable; the media is mirrored across open storage so no single institution can lock it away.
A song, a story, a way of weaving. You don’t need to be a scholar — only present, and respectful. Record it before it is gone, and let it belong to the people it came from.