Global change phenomena transforms the space and state variables and erodes this knowledge. Arresting this erosion is important and has a direct bearing on sustainability. It throws open the challenge of explicating tacit knowledge. However, there exists no standards or hermeneutics to capture and decipher tacit knowledge. Practices in vogue for documentation of indigenous knowledge are as amorphous as the knowledge itself. The diffuse structure of indigenous knowledge necessitates a federated approach to create a knowledge database.

i -Know : Indigenous Knowledge Web - A Geospatial Participatory Learning and Conservation Initiative for Sustainable Development offers a platform to assimilate scattered and fragmented bits of indigenous knowledge into computable data mines. Emergence of data analytics opens hitherto unavailable means of deep-learning to discover patterns in indigenous knowledge across space and time.Spatial analysis in ethnobotany concerns figuring out patterns of indigenous knowledge (in this case, indigenous use of plant/ plant products to cure human ailments) as they appear in relation to one another across space.