 What the British Library holds in terms of its collections is the world's cultural heritage and what we're hoping to do in this project is to make it freely available so it can be accessed by anyone anywhere in the world. We've actually started scanning our early printed Bengali collections. Before they can be scanned obviously they undergo a conservation assessment. Whatever is fit to be digitized goes to be digitized. Whatever isn't fit to be digitized is conserved and then digitized at a later date. This is a vast body of material and part of which has never been seen before by any researchers which we are looking to put online and that once that is put together once that is out out there it would constitute easily one of the the biggest database of in the South Asian printed materials anywhere in the world and would fundamentally alter the landscape of research. What it does do is give us a really great idea of the kind of material that was being written which was very extensive, you know anything from kind of geography, history, erotica. So it kind of sheds a new light on what we know of cultural production in the time. Essentially you're building an architectural tool into which you could feed in other South Asian languages as well. So we'd like this project to be kind of the benchmark for similar kinds of projects in the future. The time and the compulsion behind carrying out such a project could not have been more urgent and it is therefore very important for anyone who cares about culture and reading in South Asian languages to really come to the aid of this project. This is an absolute crying need for this material to be digitized and put online.