Today we are introducing you to Living Gems.
Living Gems is an effort for us to digitize
and put online all the talks
that Thich Nhat Hanh has ever given in his life.
So far, they've always been on different tapes, different recordings.
And now finally, we would like to find
a way to put them online,
make them easily searchable for everybody in the world.
This is an effort from many, many people,
in total maybe about 50 people, and a growing number.
And we would like to share this with
you and share a bit with how it's going.
One thing which is very
important about this Living Gems is our search
because it enables us to easily find what you're looking for.
And David will introduce that a bit to you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
So, the search obviously is just a regular
search, but the magic behind it
is what it's all about because there are thousands of videos.
Like you said, hours of materials.
It's very hard to find what you're looking for.
So, instead of going into regular subjects,
you can specifically find something within each video and
jump to a section within the video
so you can find what you're looking for.
Great, Thank you.
And maybe I should show it.
Right?
So I will I will give you a demo right now.
I think that's the most important part
because otherwise you're just like, what is this?
So,
basically what you're looking right to what you're looking at right now
is the the homepage and what you gain access to.
And in the homepage,
you you will see the input field with some suggested search topics.
And you can type in anything yourself or
go into some of the filters we provide to
go deeper into your search objective.
And these are some of the results
and you can see underneath each result
that it can go to a segment,
a specific point in the video, which it will jump to.
So yeah.
And I think once you're
at a video, you can see that there's
a beautiful transcript on the right side.
And Jonas will share a little bit more about that,
how that's been generated and what we
can do with that and who's
helping us to validate and check this.
Technology has progressed amazingly over the last few years,
which gives us the capability to have automatically transcribed talks,
thousands of talks.
These transcriptions are amazingly accurate for what they are,
but we do still know that there's mistakes.
That's which is why we've made the editing process
as easy as we possibly could.
Which means that if you ever see
a mistake, press that suggest edit button
and one of our team of
validators will have a look at your suggestion,
after which it will be live
for the entire community to benefit from.
We've really enjoyed building this editing experience
and we hope that you enjoy
editing as much as we enjoyed building it.
So, back to you, Maarten.
This is a community effort.
The whole community is invited to join in.
So you're welcome to reach out to us or just start editing
and suggest a change to any errors or issues you see.
Yeah.
I think that's it.
That's it for now.
Yeah.
Please look around.
That's what I would say and search, search for anything.
And enjoy.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.