research

Research and development at Lanka Data Foundation.

Quickstart

Use the following Make commands to manage the development environment:

• Start System: make cluster-up (Starts Backend & Frontend)
• Stop System: make cluster-down (Stops cluster & auto-dumps data)
• Reset System: make clean (Stops cluster & deletes database)

Acts

This repository includes the lk_legal_docs submodule, which provides a curated collection of Sri Lankan legal documents, such as the Tourism Act No. 38 of 2005, enabling research and analysis of legislative texts.

Huggingface DeepSeek OCR Research

This project explores OCR capabilities using DeepSeek models on the Hugging Face platform, providing scripts and notebooks for extracting text from scanned documents and evaluating performance.

Submodule Instructions

Warning

Do not update the submodule unless absolutely necessary – it contains a large number of files and updating it can be time‑consuming.

This repository uses Git submodules. To initialize and update submodules after cloning:

git submodule update --init --recursive

To add a new submodule:

git submodule add <repository-url> <path>
git commit -m "Add submodule <name>"

To update existing submodules:

git submodule update --remote --merge
git commit -am "Update submodules"

Act Lineage Navigation

Explore the version history of Sri Lankan legal acts:

• Act Version Lineage (interactive)

This page provides year‑wise and alphabetical navigation to Mermaid diagrams for each act.