The multimedia Yasna International image interoperability framework This project develops a technology for annotating textual structure within IIIF.
Beyond Discovery: Religion, economics and administration in Sasanian Iran through new clay bullae from Taxt-e Solayman This project will analyse and publish newly discovered bullae and the seal impression they bear from one of the most important fire temples of Sasanian Iran.
Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales In this 52” documentary film, (with French and English subtitles), award-winning Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko takes us on a unique journey through Mali, Senegal and Gambia to follow the trail of the kora, a unique West African harp with 21 strings, said to have been created by the djinns.
The non-textuality of knowledge: Orality and symbolism in African philosophy The project challenges the exclusion in the dominant understanding of philosophical traditions and of philosophical knowledge as essentially textual, exploring the non-textuality of philosophical knowledge in African places with a specific focus on oral and symbolic forms of knowledge.
Alternative explanations for disability: Inspiring patient-centered care among healthcare practitioners through the arts A public engagement project that brings together academics, healthcare workers and persons with disabilities to collectively and creatively understand and challenge deeply rooted philosophies and beliefs about disabilities.
Avestan Ritual in India Avestan Ritual in India (AVINDIA) is a 5-year project will film the performance of a Visperad ceremony in India and will seek to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how the ritual is structured as systematically organised activity, and to reconstruct its genesis and historical trajectory.
Enhancing digital research culture for early career researchers This project is designed to train early career researchers (ECR) to create and manage digital data in agreement with the FAIR principle (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Towards a scientific annotation service by subscription This project proposes to lay the foundation for commercialising an annotation tool developed in Hintze’s MUYA-IIIF Proof of Concept project, using the vehicle of a new digital repository for previously unpublished sources held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London.