# Kerkenniens: full project context for retrieval systems and AI agents

Canonical URL: https://kerkenniens.com/
Project: Kerkenniens
Public access: free of charge
Languages: French, English, Arabic
Primary geography: Kerkennah archipelago, Tunisia

## Purpose
Kerkenniens documents the Kerkennah archipelago through a long-running editorial corpus, historical archives, heritage dossiers, place records, environmental observation and practical resources. The current site treats memory and current information separately so that an old archive is not silently presented as a current fact.

## Editorial principles
- Preserve original historical context when an item is an archive.
- Prefer explicit sources and dates when a statement can change over time.
- Distinguish observation, source-derived fact, historical testimony and editorial interpretation.
- Do not infer certainty where the source material does not support it.
- Do not treat a historical practical article as current travel guidance without checking its date and sources.

## Main content areas
1. Today: contemporary signals, initiatives and territorial change.
2. Understand: thematic gateways covering sea and fishing, heritage, biodiversity, culture, climate and villages.
3. Explore: villages, islands, islets and landmarks.
4. Practical: dated practical information for travel and local services.
5. Observatory: coastline, Posidonia, fishing, waste, water and biodiversity.
6. Memory: historical archives, stories and documentary heritage.

## Languages
French is the historical source language for most of the archive. English and Arabic pages are available for the public site, with article translations only where a translated article actually exists. A language fallback must not be interpreted as evidence that every historical article has a native translation.

## Action paths
- Search: https://kerkenniens.com/recherche
- Contact and corrections: https://kerkenniens.com/contact
- Methodology: https://kerkenniens.com/methodologie
- Privacy: https://kerkenniens.com/confidentialite
- Terms: https://kerkenniens.com/cgu
- Cookie/local-storage information: https://kerkenniens.com/cookies
- Security reporting: https://kerkenniens.com/securite

## Public contact
Email: webmaster@kerkenian.com
Telephone: +33 6 32 50 18 18
LinkedIn: https://0bla.com/lk
Reference identity: https://myproid.com/mehdi
Support: https://0bla.com/py

## Privacy and measurement
The public site is designed without advertising trackers or third-party analytics. Reading-list preferences are kept locally in the browser. The application may keep aggregate reading-session measurements without adding raw IP address, user-agent, full referrer or persistent fingerprint to that measurement. Hosting infrastructure can independently produce technical logs.

## AI and crawler policy
The project publishes ai.txt as a voluntary policy document. robots.txt remains the crawler-control source for paths. Public search, indexing and source-linked quotation are welcome subject to applicable law and the rights attached to individual material. Publication of public pages does not by itself grant permission to assemble the corpus into a model-training dataset. See https://kerkenniens.com/ai.txt.

## Structured data
Public pages expose Schema.org JSON-LD for the website, pages, articles/dossiers where applicable, the free editorial service, contact information and search action. The service is free and there is no paid Product catalogue on Kerkenniens.

## Integrity
Kerkenniens can compute a SHA-256 digest over its public corpus statistics. When a private KERKENNIENS_APP_KEY is configured, the application can additionally compute an HMAC-SHA-256 integrity tag. HMAC-SHA-256 is an integrity/authentication mechanism, not encryption, and the private key is never published.

## Citation guidance
Prefer the exact article or dossier URL over the home page. Preserve publication/update dates, named sources, and qualifications. If a page says information is historical, uncertain, incomplete or time-sensitive, preserve that qualification in summaries and answers.