Historical Water Sources and Settlements in Jaisalmer

Palak Babel's field notes document historical water sources, settlements, and communities in the arid Jaisalmer region. The dataset comprises a 2.1 MB PDF file containing qualitative observations on water infrastructure and agriculture. It was last updated on April 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze settlement patterns relative to documented water sources like wells or reservoirs.
• Study the relationship between described agricultural practices and community resilience in an arid climate.
• Extract named historical communities and their associated water infrastructure for timeline or network analysis.
• Identify and categorize types of traditional water management infrastructure mentioned in the notes.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly shared under a CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license, allowing for non-commercial derivative work.
• Provides a qualitative, field-based perspective on a specific geographical region (Jaisalmer).

Limitations

• The 2.1 MB size indicates a small-scale, likely qualitative document rather than a large structured dataset.
• Data is presented as unstructured text in a PDF, requiring manual extraction for computational analysis.
• Temporal coverage and the number of observations or sites documented are unknown from the metadata.

Provenance

Source

Palak Babel via figshare.

Collection Method

Field notes and observations.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Jaisalmer region.