 to be here even if it's a double challenge because all my team, not my team, all the team is now in India and I just began in this project one month ago and so I learned a lot for doing this presentation I will say and the PI I just went in India two weeks ago so you can imagine that I am here since one month and since two weeks she's not here so that's not a lot of time to speak with her so I will try to do my best and so I am working in this Mouya project this multimedia Yasna project which just began one year ago and as it's focused the Yasna the core ritual of the Zoroastrian religion the groundbreaking nature of this project lies in the fact that it combines two different approaches on one side with the act of the ritual performance and on the other one the manuscript which contains the text of this ceremony and we have to deal with these two kind of data as we will see in this approach the Yasna will be studied both as an event in the form of the ritual performance and as a text in the form of literary documents this project is is by Almutin say we just not here today and there is two postdoctoral for the moment a third one will arrive in one year and that's the same for the PhD so the the team just increase this year and so we have to deal with many peoples so at the beginning there were not so many people so problem arrives more we are more it's difficult to deal with the fights and how we exchange fights of course after us this small introduction I will now explain as much as I can the data management my speech will contain two parts one of the ritual performance and the other one on the manuscript the first objective of the of this project is to produce a film of the fully as now ritual that's mean more or less two hour and half recording this ceremony is also important in order to preserve this in the in danger red heritage Almut is now in India doing this movie with other people in a first part we will make a movie more an anthropological type film because it will be the entire ceremony and we will make no cuts and no interation and this film will contain subtitles in Afghanistan that means transcription of the recitation text into Roman letters because if it's in Afghanistan script it will be difficult to read for most of the people and in order to make this the words which the priest utter available to the observer in both oral and visual form because it's not always easy to understand what the priest is saying as the moment is speaking for transcription and annotation we will use bold which means basic oral language documentation in which the priest will repeat their oral performance in a slower and more highly articulated way so that we can make the transcription because we know the text but of course there is so small variation so we have to be very aware of all this variation and subsequently the film of the ritual will be segmented into clauses and word and each segment will be translated and annotated with a line a multimedia tool developed at the Max plant Institute for psycholinguistics and this tool is for the creation of complex annotation on video resources so the textual context content of annotation is always in any code of course and the transcription is stored in an XML format on the other side a short-term we will be editing with 360 degrees camera and we will make some close-up at some part of the ceremony to show specifies aspect and so it will be a movie focusing on certain part and in this aspect it will be an editing movie the subtitles will appear of course and furthermore we will add hotspots so that means you can click on some word and there will be a link like an encyclopedia link and you will have information and here that's a project she has made and so you see this priest and he just cutting some plants before the ritual and you can see that he's pouring water and if you can click on this word you will have some definition of what is that doing now and just here at the end you have what he is reciting just now so snouta and so on so you can listen you can put pause stop and have some other information and so that will be the edited movie so we have two parts the film recording will be in mp4 for the streaming on the web but the originals are going to be MTS there is two professionals Rémi and Anna who are involved in this project for all the technical aspect of the movie and the recording of it all this material video audio and annotation we'll go into lr about which Montana just spoke this morning furthermore we will have photography too because of course there will be photography of the ceremony but there is also an aspect of this project about the ritual training of the priest which are a little bit not well understood or well studied for the moment and so all this photography which will be deposited into the SOAS database and so that's for the first part the ritual performance the other aspect of the project deals with manuscript and their treatment and the information they contain so for this project we will provide an edition of the Yasna ceremony and for this we are combining the latest digital technology with traditional philological techniques so first thing is of course the manuscript as you know collecting manuscript is a big word a big work in itself but we have on this aspect a collaboration with the Avestan digital archive and that's an archive with a lot of manuscript on it during the last year Alberto Cantera and his team have collected manuscript and more than 100 manuscripts are now available online and we will also have access at the manuscript not already online it's it takes time to put the manuscript online because each page of each manuscript is indexed with a photoshop and after we have to put the picture on the website and with this we can just make some research and I can just say I want this part of the text this sentence and which manuscript contains in sentence so that's very useful to exactly checked at one passage and so these manuscripts are all on a server and the pictures are in different formats so we have on the server a psd format with high quality but as you say it's difficult after to upload on the website and so we have a gpeg format with a quality 100 for the web so we have two different formats one for us and one for the website but the one of the website is fine but of course it's good to have the other format too not all the manuscripts are available of on Avestan digital archive as you can easily imagine and we will also make photographs of manuscripts in collection in India during November so right now and these images with also also go into the so as so big database and that's the first step having the manuscript with the text the second text the second step already running is the transcription of manuscripts we are using a customized online transcription editor OTE which automatically encodes the text in xml and we are using of course a new unicode police font it was developed and implemented by Martin Severs of the Center for Digital Immunities at the University of Trier and we are currently adapting it for Avestan because it was made at the beginning for quick for the new testament and so each person of the project make transcription of some section of the Yasna so just here we have this OTE software and we are writing on it and we are following the line of the manuscript so like this we can have the image of the manuscript and the transliteration who fits perfectly and we can we can add a lot of commentary for example if it's a prima or seconda manual if the text is in the margin if there is in certain later and if there is an uncertain later why because the badge has a problem or there is a hole or I cannot read it clearly and so on or if there is a ritual direction and in written language and the indication of punctuation so there is a lot of possibilities and we are typing that on this OTE software and after when we saved everything is put on our computer on the xml format and also it's stored on the 3R server in a near future data will be stored on your own server at the source so that's a big job of course to make this transliteration and now okay we have all this transliteration but what next so the next step will be to use this xml format you have on the computer and to put them in this software named CollateXT and this software will make automatically comparing and collating readings of manuscripts and will produce theme in a variety of format so we will have with that the indication about the family the genealogy of the manuscript and all the possibilities and the result will be taken to make the addition for producing a critical apparatus this software was already employed but for the greek and so we will have to deal with Avistan and for the moment we just have example with the greek version and the final collection with this critical apparatus so we will use that and it will be the opening for the edition part but we will not stop at this point because we will make in a more ancient way if i can say also an in-depth philological studies for selected part of the YASNA so we will make this critical edition with the base of this software but we will also provide a translation with commentaries and a glossary of the vocabulary in a book so each collaborator will publish a part of the YASNA and so that's the data which we are dealing with and so i hope i answer to the most of this question here and for being honest for the last one for posterity for me it's a big problem to answer to this type of question because we have already seen that the project at just a five years duration but what after and not only that 20 years ago when i used my computer i was sure i will open my data very easily 10 years after and that's not the truth so i am speaking here with this xml format and so but will that be used in 20 years i have no idea at all so i think it's not only the website on which you are putting your database but how the technology will be evolved in the next year so for the moment i don't have an answer to this question and for the rest i think i have finished on time last one question it sounded like you said that people photoshop the pictures of manuscripts yeah for the on the western jacquard digital archive yes it seems like a bad thing why depends on what we do what do they do it they color it no no in fact we are taking the photography and we are just taking one page we add blank in all parts and on this blank part we are putting here the name of the folio and i just here we are putting the name of the library okay that sounds okay here we are putting the name of the library and the name of the manuscript and here have a stand digital archive and here we are just putting at which line begins the sentence so it's just a way to to church very easily and on the photography we are not really doing something it's just that we are cutting in for not having all the i don't know sometimes when you have a photography here you are a finger it's not very useful so we are just cutting and just keeping the photography half as she does and the file is being edited as tiff at this point no at this point we are on the photoshop and so the first is saved as a psd so i think it's a format for photoshop and the second one is saved for the web archive you have a special clothes in photoshop it's written saved as web archive or something like that and this one is in jpeg and you can just choose at this moment the quality and we choose the higher one i think 100 and this photo is downloaded on the website but on the server we have this psd version and the dpeg version but so you're using the psd version as the high quality archival version only on the server but not on internet because it's more or less impossible to upload photography very big yeah so and there is we have 100 manuscripts they are for for the moment 100 manuscripts and you have i don't know 600 pages for each manuscript so and it's only the beginning so it's not possible to to make that with another higher quality but this quality is good and on the website you have this page we just appear and after you can click on the page and it just comes bigger and you can bigger the size again and you can see very clearly when you crop do you ensure that you retain the edges of them when you crop the edge yeah so do you ensure that you retain the edges of the manuscript i written what the edge so can you do you occasionally slice the edge of the manuscript yeah that's true that it's not perfect and they are you know it begins in 2010 so it was the beginning and there is a lot of calibrator not so many but some some calibrator and so we have some instruction and now they just decided to make a facsimile version of one manuscript and they have seen the problem because each picture has a different size because we are cutting but of course if it's here i don't know we have to cut here for the next page and so we can read the text for so for reading the text it's not a problem but if you want to make after an edition and thinking that it's exactly the same no but we also have the original picture on the on the server not for everyone but we are keeping this original picture so if we want to see really something we can just go as the first version and see so then the other question i had especially for the field which is being done now in india is when you take a picture do you take the picture with an object of known size and color so that in the image you have embedded the information about the manuscript size and you can make any color adjustments ah um normally for the manuscript we have a scale just next to the manuscript and with this color for having an idea after i will be honest i was not here each time the manuscript was digital and so perhaps it's not the case for all the manuscripts because sometimes we have a lot of time we can do it sometimes you are just in a quick time and you are just doing what you can because you don't know if next time you will have the occasion to take against the photography tank question how do you ensure that you get a flat image that your perpendicular surface is a flat image how do you ensure that your camera is exactly perpendicular to your this paper so now they are in india and they have they have something very big like that and there is some light and so you just put the manuscript on and the camera is fixed and there is some light just going on the manuscript for avoiding the shadow and so on and so like this the manuscript is here the light the camera normally it's it's quite like that other questions then uh then i'll just make a comment actually both you and Lou it's our understanding of ERC regulations that even well with certain caveats that you really should be putting things in zinodo because that's the kind ERC approved yeah for being the next i i just learned about zinodo today so i don't know if it's something really british if it's anywhere your brand but that's the first time i heard this word so i will check a little bit more on that all right well thank you very much and thank everyone i thank everyone for coming today