So let's read Ephesians chapter 1 verse 15 to verse 23 and we're going to get into the apostles prayer for the saints. Ephesians 1 beginning at verse 15 therefore I also after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints do not cease to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this age but also in that which is to come and he put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all so as we've been going through chapter one Paul has been outlining the blessings that believers have in the Lord Jesus Christ and he now prays that believers will come to understand and appreciate those blessings now he's praying for them we asked the question what is it that has moved him to prayer well what moved him to prayer he says to us is that visitors have come and given him a good report people had taken the time to come and see him in jail and informed him of the condition of the church there in Ephesus he was under arrest now why was he under arrest as I was reading this I began to think and preparing I began to think that I ought to explain a little bit as to why the apostle Paul was a jailbird and he was he went to prison he went to jail several times in his ministry and all and Ephesians is one of those epistles or letters that is referred to as a prison epistle so you see he's under arrest and so let me give you a summary of why he's under arrest when you begin to read in the book of Acts Paul had been in the city of Jerusalem and what he had done is he had entered into the temple grounds as they had entered into the temple grounds there in Jerusalem an unbelieving Jew had stirred the people against him claiming that Paul was anti-Jewish he had said that Paul taught against the people the law and the temple he also claimed that Paul had brought Gentiles into the temple and in doing so had defiled it you see that in Acts 21 they had seen somebody by the name of Trophimus he was an Ephesian they had seen him with Paul and they assumed that Paul had taken him in the temple and so a mob had gathered together and and it was a dangerous place but Paul was allowed to speak to this mob and and when he did so he began to give his testimony as he was speaking he told them that God had sent him to to reach the Gentiles and when he got to that point Acts 22 verse 22 says that the crowd listened to Paul until he said this then they raised their voices and shouted rid the earth of him he is not fit to live when the mob got out of control the commander removed Paul for his own safety and he wanted to know why he had been accused by the Jews so he assembled the chief priests now when Paul was standing before these chief priests he noted that some of them were Pharisees and some of them were Sadducees now because the Sadducees deny resurrection Paul began to speak concerning the resurrection he said it's because of my belief in teaching in the resurrection that I stand before you now and when he did that it created a great a great chaos ensued we'll put it that way this was a point of contention between the two they began to argue the argument got violent it was so violent the commander ordered Paul back to the barracks he was then jailed for two years and finally he stood before the governor a man at that time by the name of Festus now Paul saw that Festus was partial to the Jews and so instead of going through a mockery of a hearing he appealed to Caesar you see that in Acts 25 so before going to Rome he stood before a man by the name of King Agrippa and then he went to Rome while awaiting trial in Rome Paul was under house arrest and it was during that time that he wrote the prison epistles Philemon Colossians Philippians as well as this book here Ephesians while he was in prison he was able to receive visitors Acts 28 verses 30 and 31 says that Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house and received all who came to him preaching the kingdom of God teaching the things which concerned the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence no one forbidding him and so he was continuing to minister and all he could receive visitors and so visitors have come and some from so from those who had visited him Paul was able to receive information about the condition of the churches and and he was blessed to hear that the Ephesian church is doing well notice verse 15 how he says it he said I also heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for the saints that was the good report that caused him to pray with such joy he was blessed he was blessed by how the Lord was moving in the church when the church is doing well it blesses mature believers it will especially bless the pastor of that church in 3rd John verses 3 and 4 John the apostle said it gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth you went on to say I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth so when a pastor an apostle as as paul but a pastor a church leader gets a report that the church is doing well it causes them to have great joy and that's what paul is feeling you see every congregation every church has a reputation and that reputation in the community may be better known than we think all churches have these reputations and some have good reputations and others not so good you see the reputation of that church is produced by people who attend the church the reputation of that church is is is known by the pastor it's known by the congregation and paul when he was writing to the Corinthians in 2nd Corinthians 3 verse 2 said it like this he said you yourselves are our letter written on our hearts known and read by everybody and so when the church disperses after a church service that's when the church's reputation is is magnified throughout the community and and every pastor knows that their church has a reputation and when you read the bible you see that the churches that are listed very often are are mentioned with certain reputations let me give you some examples for example the church at Rome when you read the the letter to the romans the church at Rome was known for something was known for its faith in christ when paul wrote to the romans in chapter one verse eight he said this to them he said your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world so the roman church was known for its faith that was the reputation the church in thessalonica the thessalonians had had a reputation for works and love for endurance evangelism for perseverance through trials when paul wrote to them in first thessalonians chapter one verse three he said this he said we continually remember before our god and father your work produced by your faith your labor prompted by love your endurance inspired by hope in our lord jesus christ in first thessalonians one eight he said from you sounded out the word of the lord not only in macedonia and anicaea but also in every place your faith toward god is spread abroad so that we need not to speak anything in second thessalonians chapter one verses three and four he said this he said we ought always to thank god for you brothers rightly so because your faith is growing more and more and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing therefore among god's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials that you're enduring so you see churches have reputations we see the reputation of the romans we see the reputation of the thessalonians but we also know of the reputation of the Corinthians to be called a Corinthian was a dirty word during the time of the writing of 1st and 2nd Corinthians and and unfortunately Corinth was pretty much living up to the reputation the church at Corinth was living up for the living up to the reputation of Corinthians it was this church was known but it was known for its carnality and divisiveness in 1st Corinthians 1 10 and 11 he said I appeal to you brothers in the name of our lord jesus christ that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought my brothers some from chloe's house have informed me that there are quarrels among you so you can have a reputation every church does and the Ephesians do the Ephesian church has a great reputation they're known for their faith towards god and their love for the saints verse 15 tells us genuine faith is manifested in love towards others especially for those who are in the household of god and that's why he speaks of their faith in jesus and their love for all the saints remember once again what is the mark of a genuine christian what is the mark of a believer what is the birthmark some of you perhaps have birthmarks i mentioned to you that i have one i have a birthmark it's here on my on my rib cage and uh my mom had a birthmark and and so i sometimes felt that i didn't belong to the family so my mom i'd say i'm just a little kid you found on the street you adopted i'm not yours you know i said that when i was 60 years old i mean i never i never got over it but i used to say that because in my family i i didn't look like everybody else my i have blue eyes blue green eyes i have light skin brown hair and the rest of my family black hair olive complexed my dad had blue eyes but i just didn't seem to fit in and so i would say that i'd say i'm just somebody you found on the street and you brought into the house and my mom would lift up her blouse and there is a birthmark on her and she'd point to it and she'd say this is my mark and you have my mark you belong to me and she would do that as a when i was a little boy so when we Marie and i had our first baby Corinne what's the first thing i did i lifted up you know and i looked and there on her rib cage is a birthmark so she has the mark of the beast i mean she has a mark she has a mark of her father and you want to know something when she had our first grandson my Josiah when i held him when he was just born she said dad look at his rib cage and my Josiah my first born grandson has a birthmark you know and you do too and the birthmark you have is the love of God by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another what is the mark of the believer the love of Christ and so in this passage he's commending them because their love that they have for one another for the Lord Jesus Christ is seen also in the things that they do for one another Christian love is that love that doesn't pick and choose amongst who is the most beautiful person i think one of the sad things that this world does that the church should never do is to to look at the one they think is the beautiful person to the ignoring of the person that may not be outwardly beautiful i believe that we have to be aware of those things because that can even happen in churches the love of God and love for one another is revealed in compassion and concern it's love for one another first john 419 and 20 we love him because he first loved us if a man says i love god and hates his brother he's a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen how can he love god whom he has not seen we see that love in the ministry of jesus christ he he cared for the lepers and the cripples the possessed the the promiscuous he he cared for the tax gathers he he he cared for the grieving families and christian love is demonstrated by service and sacrifice this church exhibited it and it's their faith and their love that prompted paul to pray for them and he did it with a thankful thankful heart notice verse 16 you know he says that he didn't cease to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers i think of you and when i do i lift you up to the lord and i give thanks for you isn't that a beautiful thought guys that when someone thinks of you they give thanks for you that's a beautiful thought that somebody would actually lift you up in their prayers and simply say you know father i sure love them thank you so much for putting them in my life thank you so much for the good influence they have been to me thank you jesus every thought about them lord is is good towards them it reminds me of what paul said to the flippian church in chapter one verses three and four when he said i thank my god upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine making requests for you all with joy he says in verse 17 as he's giving thanks and making mention he goes on to say this is what he's making mention of this is what i am praying for verse 17 that the god of our lord jesus christ the father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him i'm praying that god may give you certain things now remember not only is he an apostle but he's a teacher and as a teacher he's instructing them about what they have in jesus christ and so the fact is it's god who gives spiritual understanding he does that through the holy spirit in john 1426 jesus said it like this he said the helper the holy spirit whom the father will send in my name he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that i said to you so it is god who who gives understanding through the power of the spirit those who don't have the lord don't understand the things of the lord that's why in first Corinthians 2 verse 14 paul said the natural man doesn't receive the things of the spirit of god for they are foolishness to him nor can he know them because they're spiritually discerned so when he was speaking about this natural man here in first Corinthians 2 14 and he said the natural man does not receive the natural man is the one who's called the unspiritual man the one who hasn't been born again the one who doesn't have the spirit of god dwelling within them the natural man is the carnal man the unredeemed man so he says the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of god when he says the natural man does not receive that word receive is a greek word that means does not welcome it's like someone's knocking at your door and you look through the side curtain there you see it and you don't open the door the natural man is looking at the spirit of god will say in a picture knocking at the door but he will not receive him he does not welcome him in so the natural man doesn't receive the things of the spirit of god why they're foolishness to him the things of the lord are moronic the word foolish is where we also use the word moronic it's a greek word speaking of imbecilic it makes no sense to them you as a believer try to speak to someone who doesn't know the lord it's it's not like you're better and they're worse it's not one of those things it's just they don't know what you mean so you say well you know what the lord blessed me because he opened the door for me to get a good job and they said that job would have been there anyway i mean what you're saying god gave you the job for come on didn't you knock on the door didn't you give your application didn't you it was you who did it but you tell a brother and the lord or a sister in the lord i got a job the lord opened the door and they'll go hallelujah praise god do they have another opening because they understand right they do they get it they understand prayer for them isn't the last thing they do when they're in a circumstance it's the first thing they do because the natural man doesn't do that the natural man says i can't do anything else but pray but the spiritual man says the first thing i need to do is pray see it's reversed it's a reverse kind of order the natural man doesn't receive the things of the spirit of god they are foolishness neither can he know them for their spiritually discerned neither can he understand them completely because it takes the holy spirit to show you what divine truth is and so paul is praying for these Ephesians that god may give him understanding i am praying that god will give you he says the spirit of wisdom and revelation that he may give you the spirit of wisdom may you come to understand how precious fellowship with god truly is because that in and of itself is real wisdom and may you come to realize what you already have in jesus christ that is revelation so it isn't that we are lacking something because in christ we already have everything we need sometimes we simply don't know it sometimes we don't make use of it sometimes we simply don't believe it but we have it it's like that old woman older woman whose son was in the military and he had been gone for a number of years he had been in active service he'd been overseas he'd been a number of years since mama had seen her boy and he came home to surprise mama and he went up to the old house that he grew up in hadn't seen in years and comes to that picket fence and and the gate is coming off off the it's off its hinge and he looks around and there are weeds everywhere and he steps up into the into the porch the front porch and the screen door is is ripped and knocks on the door it rattles mama opens the door and he steps in and mama's her clothing is old and disheveled and mama was what happened to the house what happened what happened oh honey you know i don't have any money i don't have any money she says i couldn't keep it up i'm barely making ends meet he says but mama what did you do with with all of the all of the money i kept sending you she said what are you talking about he'd been sending her money orders she didn't know what a money order was so she said what do you mean he said i sent you money orders every month i took out of my pay and and i sent you money to support you what's it look like he says well she's well come over she walks into a room and she had wallpapered the wall with the money orders she had the resources and didn't use them and a lot of christians are that way we have in christ so many riches and we just don't use them maybe you don't believe it we never exercise it no we we have what we need in christ we need to know that that's what paul wants us to understand in second peter in chapter one verse three it reads his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence now this doesn't mean that we shouldn't seek the Lord for a deeper relationship with them seeking to have a deeper relationship should be our top priority a man that i like to read devotionally his name is aw tozer tozer said i want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after god the lack of it has brought us to our present low estate so we ought to be pursuing god hungering for him the desire for god the hunger for fellowship with him that's the christians driving force jeremiah 29 13 in the old testament god said you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart in psalm 84 verse two the psalm is that i long yes i faint with longing to enter the courts of the lord with my whole being body and soul i will shout joyfully to the living god the desire for god and hunger for fellowship should be our driving force and as christians we can have that deep and personal relationship with the lord it reminds me of exodus 33 11 where the lord spoke to moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend we can have a relationship with god it's what he he desires us to have and paul wants us to know that psalm 27 verse 4 one thing i have desired of the lord and that will i seek that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord to inquire in his temple you come to faith in christ and and your road in salvation begins and and you're born again and and you begin to pursue him and you pursue him not the things he gives you but the person he is in john 17 verse 3 this is eternal life that they may know you the only true god in jesus christ whom you have sent i think it's a very improper attitude for a believer to have where they only want to pursue things and not the person in marriage that doesn't work in marriage that wouldn't work you don't pursue things from that person you pursue that person i've said this before i'll say it quickly home isn't my house home is wherever my wife is i'm at home when i'm with her it's a relationship it's not a destination it's not possessions no it's knowing him knowing him and that's what he's praying notice what he's saying in verse 18 he says that the eyes of their understanding he says may be enlightened now the word understanding is an interesting word it's the word cardios it's where we get the word heart and the heart speaks in in the hebrew way of thinking of understanding what what what that speaks of is the inner man in its entirety so he's saying this he's saying may you be made completely and entirely aware of heavenly things may you be aware that you are adopted as god's children through jesus may you know for certain that this has been god's pleasure to do so may you cherish and live in the freedom from bondage that god gave you when he redeemed you may you come to know deeply of the costly grace of god that made this possible may you eagerly await the obtaining of your inheritance in heaven and live as if you expect to be there may this understanding provoke you to live to the praise of his glory and so that's what he's praying you see the more you drench yourself in the word of god the deeper your understanding of the things that are awaiting you will grow in colossians 3 16 let the word of christ dwelling you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in songs and him spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the lord that's what worship is anyway isn't it it's singing with grace in our hearts not to the person in front of us but to the lord and thankful for the scripture that says make a joyful sound and to the lord a joyful noise unto him because sometimes that's what it is it's a noise but it's joyful and it's a good thing well listen paul is saying notice you once you once were in spiritual darkness when we get to chapter 4 we'll get a greater understanding of what they one time were which would include us when we get the Ephesians 4 17 through 19 this is what he'll say he says i tell you this and insist on it in the lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do in the futility of their thinking they are darkened in their understanding separated from the life of god because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts having lost all sensitivity they've given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity and they're full of greed he said they're they're darkened they're dark and their understanding is dark in that word darkened means to be blinded or obscured understanding again speaks of the inability they're unable to discern the deep things he says you've been separated you're estranged you're unable to participate in the things of god due to ignorance ignorance is often the result of willful blindness and rejection and the result has been as you are hardened before you came to faith in christ you were hardened the word hardness in the greek language is speaks of a callousness but it also is a word that's a that's a strong word it's speaking of spiritual stupidity he said this is what you were before you came to faith in christ but you need to know something this is a key you need to realize you are no longer in spiritual darkness you need to realize that when you came to faith in christ your darkened minds the bible says were enlightened the word enlightened means to shine or to shed light it speaks of being brightened when i was in india i i saw the gurus in india i've spent a month in india two different occasions i went once for uh 16 days in the other i think 12 days so i spent a month in in india had opportunity to see some of the gurus that they have some of them in places called ramaswaram in different places and uh what they would do is they will have a devotee somebody who will come to them and they're seeking instruction or prayer or something and sometimes what the um what the guru will do is they'll press their their their forehead speaking of this eye that they're going to open up and and uh and what they'll do is they'll press there and there are those who will report that they see a bright light that will shine well there's a gland here in your forehead and when it's pressed in a certain way it gives an electric charge it gives a sense of of illumination and that's where they say they have been enlightened that's where that phrase is coming from that's what it's referring to spiritual enlightenment problem is is no i didn't get enlightened because somebody put a thumb in my forehead i got enlightened because the holy spirit brings light that's that's how you're enlightened the bible says in isaian 9 verse 2 the people who walked in darkness have seen a great light those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death upon them a light has shined so i'm 18 verse 28 for you will light my candle the lord my god will enlighten my darkness and second chrithians chapter 4 verse 6 god who said let light shine out of darkness has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of god in the face of jesus christ in creation when god created light let there be light that's what god is telling you when you got saved you when i got saved we who walked in darkness were spiritually stupid ignorant against god pursuing the things of the world and then he enlightened you he enlightened our darkness and now we can see i i see clearly now for the first time i see clearly now because god opened up our eyes to see and so what does he want he says verse 18 that you may know that you may know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory he prays that they might understand the hope of his calling riches of the glory and the greatness of his power that you may know that word know that you may perceive that you may perceive the hope of his calling that that that scene being enlightened may become knowing may god move before you so much that it becomes the natural pattern of your life may god move in your life so much that you begin to just be so sensitive to the spirits leading that you know he's saying talk to this person or he's saying go here or he's saying stop may you become so sensitive may that happen this is a prayer of paul that we would know what the spirit does in our lives so we might move in that hope that he has that we may see those things and that we might see the hope notice he says in verse 18 that you may know what is the hope of his calling what is the hope of his calling well it's it's to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ God's plan for our lives is that we all will have resurrection glory and be like him in Galatians 5 verse 5 paul said this he said for through the spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope in 1st John 3 verse 2 beloved now we are children of God what we will be has not yet been made known but we know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is we shall see him as he is my goodness i don't understand that but one day i will fully understand that i will know like the revelation when we studied the revelation well back i will know that the lion is a lamb i will know that i will know that jesus bore those stripes on my behalf i'll know that in more full sense because sometimes i don't realize it to the depth it should affect me i'll know that he he bore that cross for me in a deeper sense i'll understand more deeply the tears that he wept over Jerusalem and for a friend who had died i'll understand that i'll understand some of the things that i don't understand now why he allowed this to happen or how come that took place at that point there's no need for an explanation because i will know even as i am known it will all make sense at one time it's all going to be one of those aha and those moments where out makes sense why did i doubt you've got why did i think you didn't love me why did i think you treated me unfairly why i'm so wrong those things will know he wants us to grow that in that knowledge now to know that our god is control of all things and he's doing a work in us right now and no matter what it may be no matter what it may be and how it appears right now it all works out in the end as i've shared with you before one of the young men in one of my classes that i teach asked me what is the deepest lesson you've ever learned as a christian i've been walking with the lord for a while now and i said what is the deepest lesson i can say that quickly it all works out in the end it all works out in the end it all tied together i just didn't see it being woven in the mighty will of god i didn't see it but now i'm starting to see it oh you allow that to happen so i would go over here to do this so that i could meet this person over here who is going to do now i get it and so that's starting to take place in a little bit for me and prayerfully it'll be taking place for all of us so we will know even as we're known second he says that we may know what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints that word riches speaks of abundance of something valuable he says oh my prayer is that believers will come to understand salvation the hope of being with christ and enjoying his blessings will become the number one desire of your heart motivating you in romans 8 16 and 17 the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit we are children of god and if children then heirs heirs of god joint heirs with christ if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together and then third what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe the exceeding greatness of his power is an incredible statement the exceeding greatness is a phrase that speaks of the immeasurable might of god himself the infinite power of god was displayed when he resurrected jesus christ and the same power that resurrected jesus dwells in us in romans 8 11 if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead is living in you he who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his spirit who lives in you the spirit that raised the dead body of christ dwells in me dwells in you you are the temple of the spirit of god and the spirit of god dwells in you all that we would understand that we need to understand that we have power through jesus christ it is the same power that raised him from the dead that resides in us it's the power of the holy spirit who has been given to us you shall receive power after that the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me jerusalem judia samaria to the other most parts of the earth this holy spirit the promise of the father who has come upon those who have waited for him and said god may your spirit baptize me in your power that holy spirit dwells within us who are the temple of god and he speaks on and he continues in verse 20 and he says which he worked in christ when he raised him from the dead and seeded him at the right hand in the heavenly places he's saying that god raised jesus first he raised him from the dead like he says in acts 1330 god raised him from the dead but second he says god seeded jesus at his right hand in scripture often the right hand is a place of power and authority it's a place of power and authority exodus 15 verse 6 your right hand oh lord has become glorious in power your right hand oh lord has dashed the enemy in pieces first peter 322 he has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of god angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to him and so the same divine power is at work in those of us who believe when we um when we perform baptisms i will read out of the book of romans in chapter 6 and i will read this roman 6 verse 4 we were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that just as christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father we too may walk in newness of life the old man is is dead the old man that old nature that old person we have been buried in christ and and i speak to the people and some of you have heard me say this and when we're going to baptize and i give this introductory message prior to the baptism i say that if you've ever gone to a funeral you've ever gone to a burial most have many have some haven't and you go to the graveside there's something perhaps i'm unique in this i i don't think so but i don't know there's something about when the casket is lowered into the open grave and and when that tractor comes and pushes the dirt onto the coffin there's a finality to that there's a finality to that it's just dead and buried dead and buried my father's mother my grandmother dies my dad's very strong man and i'm standing with him reviewing my little grandma's seed her body in a casket my grandma was four foot ten little thing and my dad says you see those hands son and i look at my grandma's hands folded in front of her she's wearing a little peasant dress that she would wear and her little hands are gnarled with arthritis and i'm looking at them i said yeah daddy i see them he says those those hands made a lot of tortillas my dad my dad had a sweet sense of humor and i laughed i said i'm sure i i know they did because when we went over on saturday's grandma would always make us tortillas i said yeah i know daddy he said she used them on my head more than once and he he was in good spirit you know as you would expect but when we went to the grave site and i stood next to him shoulder to shoulder and they said the last words and the casket had been lowered i'll never forget how that when the that tractor the small tractor pushed the dirt into that open grave and it hit that coffin my father just let out he choked a sob that was so deep i i felt it so i i believe there's just something about the dirt over the coffin that says it's over it's done they're dead and that's baptism for you when you went into the water dead and buried it's over it's done and then you came out resurrected in eternal life that's the picture that's what we have in christ dead and buried but alive because of him and so we may walk in newness of life he's praying may god cause you to understand this in christ we've received power and his power resides in us and it brings us to glory in him we haven't been left fatherless we're not spiritual orphans we don't care for ourselves he cares for us in verse 21 he goes on and he says far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this age but also in that which is to come he's exalted to the highest dignity and honor that exists and and and could ever be imagined god raised christ from the dead and jesus gives life to those of us who believe he raises a sinner from the death of sin and gives them power the power of everlasting life in john 524 most assuredly jesus said i say unto you he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life shall not come into judgment but has passed from death into life we have life in him it's far above all principality all power and might and dominion he is above every name jesus is exalted above principality power might and dominion and name notice that these words speak of all possible forms of power principality and power speaks of rulership it speaks of governmental power it can speak of human government but also speaks of all created power in this context paul is speaking of angelic power both that which is good and that which is evil when he speaks of might this speaks of physical and spiritual power when he speaks of dominion that speaks of the lowest level of authority but all the words apply to angelic beings of great rank and authority and he's making it clear christ is above all in verse 22 and 23 he put all things under his feet gave him to be head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him who feels all in all god has given christ all power in heaven and earth he owns the church he bought it with his own blood in first peter 3 22 the apostle said that jesus has gone into heaven is at the right hand of god angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to him colossians 1 15 through 18 he is the image of the invisible god the firstborn of all creation for by him all things were created both in the heavens and on earth visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created through him for him he's before all things in him all things hold together he is also head of the body of the church he is the beginning the firstborn from the dead so that he himself will come to have first place in everything and ultimately all will bow before jesus and he wants us to know that in philippians 2 9 and 10 therefore god exalted him to the highest place gave him the name that is above every name that at the name of jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth every tongue acknowledged that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father every time i read that i think one thing i think this every knee every tongue which means buddha will say you are lord which means muhammad will say you are lord every knee will bow every tongue shall confess that jesus christ is lord and so i do that now because he is my lord but every knee will bow even those who rejected him and they will have to say you are lord so let's do it now because we're going to do it one way or another right so i made a choice a long time ago i bow my knee before the father in heaven and jesus christ whom he has sent to redeem me i bow my knee before him and he speaks in verse 23 of the church which he says is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all he is the one who completes or fills everything the church he bought with his own blood is what makes his total dominion complete the church he saved is the crowning evidence of his complete lordship and as the church is his body he loves us and he takes care of us we'll see in chapter five when we get there in about three years when in Ephesians chapter five verses 29 and 30 no one ever hated his own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it just as the lord does the church for we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones the lord takes care of us when we get to Ephesians five and i begin to teach a series it'll be a series on marriage and the family because you see that in Ephesians five i will be sharing about the relationship we husbands have with our wives my wife needs to know that i that i love her enough to lay my life down for she needs to know that she does know that that i'm to wash her with the water of the word that i'm supposed to be a spiritual leader we'll look at those things why because jesus takes care of us because he has washed us with the water of the word because he has regenerated us because he is our master he is our lord he is our savior but he loves us as a groom loves a bride and when we get there we'll see the depth of how how god loves us and and how we men and and the wives also will love their husbands and it's a great great portion of scripture where we see the practicality of of what marriage is intended to to to demonstrate marriage is intended to demonstrate christ and his bride that's why divorce is such a serious thing to god that's why in malachi god said i hate divorce why because it breaks the image that god intended marriage to have that jesus and his bride forever united together with him loving us caring for us protecting us and us loving him in return that's what marriage is supposed to be we'll see that when we get to chapter five but as he's closed here he wants us to know we belong to him he loves us he laid his life down for us and we can walk in newness of life as we yield to jesus christ father we ask that you


The whole world must hold Russia to account. We must see justice through the ICC for their sickening war crimes committed. Whether in Butcher, Erpin, Mariapol or beyond. And Russia must also be held to account for the terrible destruction it has inflicted. We are hosting the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London this June. And we should consider together how to ensure that Russia pays towards that reconstruction. Together we're delivering as much equipment in the next few months. From Georgia to Moldova, Russia has committed violation after violation against countries outside the collective security of NATO. And the international community's response has not been strong enough. Ukraine will have the ability to gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield, right? Alexei Gontryenko, member of the Ukrainian Parliament. First of all, that's my question. It's F-16, and my question is when the training of our pilots will start. They said hello to you. They have a special gift for you I will give you after. But just say us when they will start, because that is the prey of Ukrainians today. Thank you. Perfect. We are starting to train Ukrainian pilots on both NATO standard aircraft, but also in tactics. I think that's important. And that when we talk about the long-term way to increase Ukraine's security, that's what we've started doing. And I think others will follow in time. It is purpose drastically increase the speed of decision making of all NATO members while supporting Ukraine and while functioning Russia.


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launch it this year which is where you get to see companies kind of compete to win as the best new startup I think it would be a way to say it and the winners of that competition were Velco and Johnny Smith is here to tell us about it what is Velco what is the company what is your product so Velco we create solutions for smarter and more personalized mobility the first market we're targeting is the cycling market because it's huge and we created the first connected handlebar that you can control through your smartphone wait a minute connected handlebar for my bicycle for bicycles so this isn't it's called a wingbar it has three main features the first one is a navigation system so you enter your destination on your phone you put in your pocket or in your bag and you have two block lights here telling you where to turn oh so it's gonna blink on the right left side he's got these these LEDs that are gonna blink to tell me I've got to turn left or right exactly what's awesome about it is that navigation system with light codes it's universal anybody can understand it and it's directly in your vision when you're riding your bike right right right right so that's also the problem of pulling your phone out and playing around and getting hit by a car that's 20% of bicycle I'm probably the one who had hit the car but in my case yeah 20% of bicycle accidents are due to someone watching at his phone while he's riding I would bet I would bet or her or her of course okay so that's problem one number one what is problem number two so problem number two is bike theft so if someone is trying to steal your bike you receive a notification on your phone you have the alarm turning on and then you can track live your bike so you can retrieve it anywhere in the world so you've got the GPS it'll tell you where it is but what is it about the smartphone technology that tells me that my bike is being stolen how what causes it to trigger that well the technology integrated in there is GPS GSM Bluetooth error 5d we even have accident remeters to detect an accident and send a geolocation point for your relatives so the accident thing that would be really big for me because I have a scar right here and right here right here when I fell on my bike but the accelerometer is what would tell you somebody's moving your bike when you haven't authorized it exactly okay okay so that's is that problem three problem two problem three problem three is being seen in the city and that's why we've integrated smart headlights that turn on and off automatically depending on the light outside oh that's fantastic because I'm always telling people hey your headlights are off at dusk so that that's cool what about from behind how do they see you from behind so from behind that's why we've integrated the technology of a smartphone is because behind that we want to integrate other accessories that will connect to the handlebar and that's why we're selling it to bike manufacturers to make it a standard okay that's that's a good idea because you don't actually need the smarts also at the back of the bike but to be able to talk to the back but the bike would make sense so I would think this would be really good for people who rent out bikes I know in Europe that's a thing right that's a huge thing and that's why we have a solution for that we sell handlebars to for example private bike renters you select a tour you try to visit Paris for example in two hours then the handlebar is guiding you through the city when the handlebar is telling you to stop you stop and on the app automatically you have the description of the point of interest look there's the Eiffel Tower yeah the Eiffel Tower and that could be a video a photo a text and yeah you have the history you know why and so that's really creating a touristic experience that sounds fantastic so in general so this is mostly your business is to sell to manufacturers and to tour companies not direct to consumer correct now we sell to bike manufacturers to wholesalers so you can buy your handlebar your handlebar in a bike shop or in a tech shop oh okay so that's so pretty cool so what is the name of the handlebars themselves wink bar wink bar and what's your price point on that two hundred seventy nine dollars that's not too bad yeah because more and more you have e-bikes for example and this it's true that the cost is getting higher and higher and what you can even do is plug your handlebar to your e-bike so it's free of charging oh that's nice i'm like oh yeah charging how do you charge it otherwise so otherwise you have a key you can take the battery off from here charge it at home put it in back and that's good for three weeks oh that's fantastic and is this on the market yet or soon is in uh is it in france where is it so this product will be launched on the market in two months two months in europe and then we're coming to the u.s at the end of the year all right fantastic so if people want to learn more about the velco blink bar blink bar is that right wink bar wink bar he told me four times wink bar uh well how would people find more out about more about it yeah they couldn't go on our website www.velco.bike and they will have all the information needed velco.bike how do you know that was a top level domain that's awesome yeah it is all right thank you very much johnny thank you for your time thank you for your time


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So I'm Joshua Gomez. I work at the Getty Research Institute as a software engineer, and this is Emily Pugh. She's our Digital Humanities Specialist, and we're undertaking a big task at the Research Institute to rebuild a 30-year-old software system known as the Provenance Index. So you want to take it away? Sure. So I'm Emily, and as Josh mentioned, I'm the Digital Humanities Specialist. My background is in art history, and I thought I'd start by telling you a little bit about the history of the database and of the project to sort of explain a little bit about what the data is, how people use it, how they have used it, how they're using it now, to help you understand, give you a little bit of context for what Josh is going to tell you about because of this project, which is just at its early stages. I'm going to emphasize. So what we call the Getty Provenance Index is actually a set of, depending on how you count it, 6, 8, or 12, multiple databases, which together contain one, more than 1.5 million records. And I'm showing you an example of one record, lot 0352 from the British sales database, and this is how it looks in the web interface. So if you were to go to our website and search the database this way. The databases cover primarily Western European art, especially painting, and they span from the 16th to the early 20th century. And just to say a bit about what Provenance Research kind of is, researchers talk about it in terms of tracing a work of art from the wall back to the studio, back to the easeling studio. And they undertake this kind of research to do things like authenticate a work of art, research its authorship, to research artistic influence. So for example, if you knew a particular painting was in the collection of a teacher of a particular artist, you might say, well, perhaps he or she was influenced by that work. It also helps curators who might discover, for example, that a particular painting in a curator's collection might have belonged to a triptych, these kinds of research issues. Also legal issues to prove that artwork was acquired legally, for example. So the Getty Provenance Index is overseen by the GRI's project for the study of collecting and provenance, also known as the PSCP. So you will hear me refer to the PSCP. This is the staff that manages and produces the Getty Provenance Index. So as Josh mentioned, the GPI was established in the 1980s, and initially it was a book series to support provenance research, showing you an example here of Volume 3 of the British Sales Index and an image of one of the pages from that index. The databases were built to fuel the production of the print publication and were built in the QuadraStar database system. It's, as I mentioned, a series of databases, and it was created, QuadraStar was to serve the databases needs of libraries, archives, and museums in particular. So the staff began with transcribing inventories from private collections in the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain, and in France from 1550 to 1840, as well as auction catalogs that, of course, document the sale of artworks. And the books and thus the database were designed to support the traditional sort of wall to easel provenance research. They're based on looking up a single work of art, primarily to find out who owned it at a particular time, so you can see why in the paper version you'd look for your work of art in this way. However, with the rise of the worldwide web, the electronic databases as themselves, people started to realize those could be a research tool rather than a print production tool, and a web interface was built to allow users to search the database directly, which I showed you an example before. However, it was still focused on supporting this traditional use cases of looking up a single work of art. So over the last decade to 20 years, of course, technology has continued to change, but the field of provenance research and the needs of researchers have also changed. So for example, there's an increased need for provenance information and research tools because museums are now required to do more research on their own collections. These are changes precipitated in particular by legal issues related to Holocaust-era assets. There's also an interest, not just in provenance, but in the history of art markets and collecting. So these researchers are interested not only in ownership, but things like the price of art and how it changes over time, the mobility of objects, where they've traveled and how they got there, the influence of dealers and patrons on the history of art, not just artists or owners. The other thing that's happened is the emergence of the tools and techniques associated with digital humanities, which have allowed art historians to analyze and visualize large data sets in new ways. And researchers have started to find out that they can use this massive set of data about the art market, about art ownership to examine things like the evolution of the art market over time, the social networks of dealers, who was selling to whom, which dealers might have sold primarily versus bought primarily, etc. Now previously research on dealers was done on a case study basis, so you might focus on one famous dealer. Now using the GPI data, people can look at all the dealers in the network instead of only the most famous cases. The other thing that's changed is at the GRI and at other institutions as well, there's a growing number of special collections items related to provenance collecting in the art market. So you're seeing an image here from the Felvermire collection, which are photos that were taken at the Allied Central Collecting Point in Munich, and these photos document the process of repatriating artworks looted by the Nazis. They also have papers of art collectors, of lawyers who worked on provenance cases, these kinds of materials. We are also really collecting a lot of dealer archives, which contain stock books, but also letters, telegrams and other correspondence, photos of their holdings, exhibition histories, what they were showing in their sales galleries at particular times. So inventories and auction catalogs are still useful, but the feel has for the most part mined these. There's not a lot of new inventories coming to light, and so dealer archives and information from dealers is really the growing, where the most data is kind of entering the field. Now the GPI has changed with the field, focusing more on contributing records from dealer archives, such as sales catalogs and stock books. Many of which have come from our special collections acquisitions, so you're looking at an image of a stock book, one of 15 from Goupil & Si, a French dealer, and the scanning of these 15 stock books resulted in 43,700 records being added to the provenance index. The PSCP has also filled gaps in the GPI data through research projects that themselves reflect changes within the field. So for example, relatively a lot was known about the French art market, not so much was known about the London art market, hence the British sales project 1788-1800, a project in collaboration with the National Gallery in London, which charted the rise of the London art market, and the two German sales projects, first 1930-45, and then currently 1920-1930, these projects are in collaborations with German institutions, and they collect information from auction catalogs during these dates that can be used to trace the provenance of art alluded by the Nazis. So while the staff has sought to update and adapt the GPI to these new needs, there are still challenges to the current system in terms of newer use cases and newer research methods. So obviously the databases were built in a pre-internet time and are fairly time and labor intensive to maintain. So I showed you earlier a lot 0352 in the web interface, this is what it looks like in QuadraStar. As I mentioned, but the database and initially the books were built to support, or rather the database was built to support print production and to answer this traditional kind of provenance research questions of looking at single works of art. So there will always kind of be a limitation to its use if you want to use it for something different than that. There's also the issue of a lack of data standardization. Now the PSCP has staff entered information in the GPI in such a way as to preserve the structure and content of the source documents. So for example, you see on the right, death date is registered as AFT.1683, because that's how it was in the source document. So that's great news for researchers who wanted a close connection as possible to the source document, but it's not so great for computers who want to see a single number and not things like AFT. The other thing is I mentioned that it's actually made up of eight plus databases and so they're each kind of modeled differently. So field names in one say one database might call something a date of document, whereas in another it might be lot sale date. Another issue is that source document languages were maintained. So if it was a Dutch sale, all the information in the GPI is in Dutch, yeah. So that's a challenge. Now you can see that some authorities are used. So for example, it has the artist authority here. But in general, there's a need for a lot more data standardization. The other issue is that the current GPI is difficult to access, understand, and use. So this is partly because of that lack of data standardization, which makes searching difficult. If you don't know that your sale or that your artwork was in a Dutch sale, you might not know to search for it in Dutch. It's also difficult to know what's in the GPI because it's been added to over the years as source materials have become available. And so it's kind of, the information in it is kind of unevenly distributed. So for example, the sales databases cover the Netherlands, transactions in the Netherlands from 1801 to 1820, and they cover Belgian transactions from 1668 to 1840. So again, if you don't know the idiosyncrasies of the data and what it covers, you might not know what it's possible to search under or how to search. Another challenge for the researcher in terms of doing research on collecting in art markets, let's say at the GRI, is that it's sometimes ambiguous the relationship between what's in our special collections and what's in the GPI. So for example, you might search for something in a nobler stock book in the GPI, a record from a stock book, and not know or not know how to access the whole rest of the nobler dealer collection, which could have correspondence related to the same work of art or pictures of it from an exhibition history, et cetera. And the other thing that's kind of cut off at the bottom there is that there's a kind of untapped research potential, because in some ways you might say this data is kind of locked in this one system designed to look up single works of art, and because of all the things I've just mentioned, it's hard to know the kinds of things you might even be able to find out using this data. Despite such challenges, we really feel there's an immense potential here and in this resource. For one thing, because of its size and scale, it's one of the largest art historical data sets in existence. Also, despite all those challenges, which you might think mean that it doesn't get used very much, it's actually used quite a lot. We searched over 400,000 times last year, and its use has tripled in the last three years. So it's still a well-used and valued resource in the field. Also, our in-house expertise in metadata standards with the Getty vocabulary program is another reason we feel well-positioned to undertake this project. And it also aligns very well with the growing commitment at the Getty to fostering innovative art historical research and to open data principles. And in fact, this image actually had a copyright on it online, because it used to be that there were really kind of not as open in terms of letting people use this data and sharing it. And now that has really changed, and we're very much encouraged to just let this data go. So hence the Getty Prominence Index remodeling project, or PIR project. Now, these are its four main principal goals. Increasing accessibility and usability are really at the top. We want to make it easier to use in its interface, but also we want to make the data inside of it easier to get at and to use. But we also want to make sure, in terms of the bottom two, we want to make sure that this new technological infrastructure and set of tools are tied to and support the changing field of our market research. So we want to, for example, at the GRI connect, strengthen the connections between the Prominence Index and what's in our special collections in the library. And we also, along the way, when you try as much as we can to link the research or the art historical size of the project with the technological size of the project. And I'll tell you a little bit more about that aspect of the project in a bit. And then first, Josh is going to talk about these first three components. Yeah, so these are the four big pieces that we have to tackle to do this. And actually, this actually misses the part before this is actually to kind of gather the requirements, you know, the use cases, what exactly are we trying to do with this? And then we can move on to building a data model to serve that. And the user interface and the data modeling kind of go together, each one kind of determines how you do the other. So it's kind of going on at the same time. And then the software development, we probably won't get started on until later this year, probably in the fall. So thank you. So to get the data modeling underway, there's kind of three main steps. First, we have to take the records all out of these databases. And I should reiterate that these are about eight heterogeneous databases, and they're not even relational databases. They're so old, they're flat file databases, which is pretty uncommon technology these days. So once we get the data out, then we have to clean it up and try to map it to some standard vocabularies and ontologies. And some people's link data projects, they will roll their own vocabularies or their own ontology, and we're going to try to stick to standards to make the data more useful. Now, all of this requires a lot of expertise, some which we have, some which we don't. So we're doing our best to acquire the tools and expertise as needed. So I think every link data talk is someone's first, so I'm going to give a kind of a quick overview of what it means to convert to link data. So with RDF, you convert all of your data into these three part statements of the subject, predicate, and object. So in this example, which is very simple, just the three column table, you can see that we're actually creating two statements from one row. So irises was created by Van Gogh, and irises was created in 1889. So you can imagine with a bigger database with many columns, you're going to end up with dozens to hundreds or even thousands of these statements per row. So you end up with billions of these semantic triples. And that's only the first part. Once you do that, then the idea is to convert those into unique identifiers so that when this data is published, machines will know that the person that you are referring to is the same person that this other organization was referring to. And hence you get link data. The machine is able to understand that these things are linked. So the common phrase is things, not strings. And this is useful for disambiguation. So even with someone like Van Gogh, there's a dozen different ways to put his name into the database. So we want to clean it up, standardize it, and convert it to this unique identifier. And this works well not just with variations in spellings, but also variations across languages. So something is referred to in a different way, in a different language. You can use the same identifier and everyone, every machine will know that you're talking about that same person. So here's an example of a vocabulary that we're planning to use, one of our own, right? So this is from the union list of artist names. And you can see in here that these are all the triples, well it's cut off, but a listing of all the triples in which Van Gogh is the subject. And then you can see in the little tabs that you can click on these other tabs to find out the ones where he's an object. I don't know how many where he would be a predicate. I'm actually kind of curious to click on that tab now. So this is just an example, right? So some of the other vocabularies that the Getty has put out are that the source of geographic names, which gives you places, the U-Land gives you people. Kona is not ready for prime time, but the goal is to give you identifiers for things. So the actual works of art. And I can't give you a timeline on when that will actually be out. That's not my responsibility yet. And then the AAT kind of gives you adjectives and themes and topics. So these are all great for the subjects and the objects of your three-part semantic triples, right? So what about the predicates? Well that's where things like ontologies come in. So an ontology is a model of the universe or just at least one piece of it that you want to talk about. And it describes the relationships between things. So you end up using these for your predicates. And just a very simple example would be Dublin Core. So you can say that somebody created something or it was created at a certain time. Now this is a very simple one and we won't be using this one. We'll be using a much bigger one called the CDOC CRM, which I believe stands for conceptual reference model. And this thing is a beast. This thing is a gigantic. The spec book is about 200 pages long just to read through all the different elements that you can use in this. So right now we are kind of trying to take just one of the eight databases and figure out how to map it into this. So we are using, we're actually trying out a couple of different tools. So one common one for data cleaning is open refine. I definitely recommend that. That's a wonderful tool. When it comes to mapping, it's a little more difficult to give a recommendation. I particularly like Karma, which is an open source technology. We've tried it out and the person that runs our provenance index now is trying them out. And she found some limitations with that where it was making assumptions for her that she didn't like. So then we started trying out this other one called 3M, which is built by some people in Crete at a computer science institute in Crete. And she's having some luck with that, but she's also finding limitations with that. So we can't give you a good recommendation yet, but I can give you a couple screenshots of what they look like. So this is 3M. This one I'm not as familiar with, but you can see that you can kind of ingest a source document and then modify which elements in the CRM that each column in your database is supposed to map to. And then once you're done, it will spit out an RDF file of the entire database for you. And then Karma will do the same thing. I kind of like it because it does this nice little graph visualization on top of the data to kind of give you the bigger picture of what it is you're working with. And you can also do some scripting inside it so that you can split values in a particular column apart, as we're doing here, or you can recombine different parts. So I kind of like it. We actually might give this one a second shot in the coming weeks. Okay, so this is kind of our work in progress, or Ruth who is the one that's been working on this. This is kind of one tiny piece of one database mapping. And it's already got a couple dozen elements. Once we map the entire thing, it'll probably have a couple hundred elements per row. So we've been in talks with some of the people at 4th, which is the people that created 3M, and some of the other people that are actually the people writing the spec for the CDoc CRM, and they have actually, I believe, come up with a few new elements based on our use case, having to do with prices and currency, which is difficult to map with the current element set. So those are tools, but we're still kind of struggling with some of this, so it's good to just bring in expertise if you can. So we're hiring two people. We've identified a candidate to kind of help us with the data extraction and cleaning and whatnot. And then our big win recently was hiring Rob Sanderson, who should start at the end of this month as our Semantic Systems Architect, and he's going to help us with this, but not just with this project. It's exciting because this position was created to kind of coordinate the activities around linked data for the entire Getty, not just the Research Institute, but also the Museum and the Conservation Institute, the Foundation, and the Trust at Large. This way, all of the things that we're doing will be on the same page. Okay, so let's move on to actually building the new system. The way I see there's four main components. There's the public interface and the staff interface for the staff that actually enter in the new data. I consider the API and interface as well, I consider a part of the front end, and then also bulk downloads, because we had a workshop last year where we invited a bunch of provenance researchers, and bulk download was one of the top requests we had from them, so we're going to try to address that as well. So some challenges with the user interfaces. This has to accommodate both the traditional use case of looking up a single artwork and finding out where it came from, but also address these new use cases of computational research and looking at things in the aggregate. So we have to create an interface that allows people to do both of those and do it well. And on top of that, we're now working with a very abstract data model. We take this very abstract thing and make it intuitive in the user interface. But despite those challenges, we can do some pretty cool stuff with this once we convert this data over. It will enable a lot more dynamic information processing, and we can do all kinds of data visualizations with this that I think will be both illuminating and just really nice to look at as well. And then being able to connect our data with data in other places will also create a much richer user interface. So my design method, I follow the advice of Alan Cooper. He has a mantra called a goal directed design where you find out what the user's goals are and you develop a system that enables to achieve those goals. So the main workflow is to first you conduct interviews and figure out what it is these users are doing, what their needs are. You create personas, and from those personas you create scenarios which are basically kind of like imagined use cases. And then once you have that, then you actually have your list of requirements. And after that, you actually begin the real design of what is it going to look like and how is it going to operate. Now for this computational research methods, the API is the user interface for these type of research rates. We have to do a good job creating a very useful API. And so the challenge is, do we want to put up a sparkle endpoint or create a respite based API? Sparkle is a very complex thing, but it is a standard. But rest is also a standard. So we might end up just building both. And then the bulky API is probably the easiest piece, right? We just put it out there. So going back to this sparkle endpoint in triple stores, triple stores have a reputation of being quite slow. So one of the things I've been thinking about is just putting everything into Elasticsearch, which is a very scalable search engine. You can just dump a bunch of data in there and it is still very fast. And then I will just build a REST API on top of that with a web framework like Django. And then there's a typo in here. It says use a triple store. Right. Sorry. That's not a typo. We might also push data out to a triple store and sparkle endpoint for people that actually want to get to the data that way. That's easier than trying to map their complex queries into the system that I'm hoping to use with Elasticsearch. And we're actually in luck with this because the Getty, a different arm of the Getty, the Conservation Institute has already built something similar to that. They built this thing called ARCHES and it can ingest CRM based data. And it's Django and Elasticsearch combined, which is what I was planning to do anyway. So there's a very strong possibility that we can start using this instead and that will put us way ahead. So I'll just give you a quick idea what ARCHES is. ARCHES was built to catalog immovable cultural heritage. So basically sites like Stonehenge. And it wasn't built as an end application. It was built as a platform for other organizations that do this type of work to take and then build their application on top of it. So this is actually quite nice. We have a platform ready to ingest CRM and we can just kind of build a new application that sits on top of it to ingest our provenance data. So just to finish by telling you a little bit about what I ended with which was trying to tie the research side of this project with the technology part. We think it's really important to, as we update the GPIs infrastructure to be able to adapt to the current needs of the field, but also continue to adapt as those change so that we're not back in the situation where we have this thing that was purpose built for one thing, but the field has moved on. So the goals of this part of the project are to design you as it supports, and to map the data in such a way that supports the queries that researchers need and want. And I think mapping with this project will never be over in a way. We'll be continually mapping all the time to try to get it right in terms of what researchers need. Also establish methods for tracking changes and updates to the data, and for communicating those changes and updates to users, which has been an area that there's been room for improvement, let's say. Because as editorial decisions are made, for example, we need ways to kind of maintain the provenance of the provenance data so people can always follow it back to the source document. And also try to position the provenance index as one part of an extensive set of resources, because a researcher will never begin and end with a single provenance record. So I'm showing you a Buberot from the Getty's collection, and a telegram about it to Getty from the Duveen, to Duveen, which is an institutional archives. It's pictured in a book about the Walters collection that's in our special collection, and it's mentioned, this painting is mentioned in a Goupil stock book. So you can see how all these things kind of link together and are part of doing provenance research, and we want to sort of strengthen those connections conceptually, certainly materially as well if we can. So some things we're doing to achieve those goals are, we are establishing a research advisory committee that includes the provenance me, the provenance data specialist, the postdoc that Josh mentioned, other experts in provenance research to conduct workshops in symposia, to come up with a content development plan. I mentioned that the provenance index reflects the historical biases of our history. It's mostly Western European painting. So should we start adding deck arts objects? Should we start adding non-Western? How might we go about doing that? And to advise in the development of data standards. We also have an extensive publications and communications plan for the project. We're redesigning the website extensively so that people can understand, maybe create data visualizations to communicate what's in the provenance index, where it's really good, where there are gaps. A guide to resources at the GRI so people can understand what's in the library versus what the PSCP is doing. Perhaps a pilot publication highlighting people who are doing the art market kind of research, the data driven research, and making it transparent how they're doing it, what tools they're using so that people understand what the... Because at this point those researchers are a fairly small group, but a big part of this project is to encourage that kind of research. And then lastly, perhaps create a data registry where we disseminate these standards for how you should model your provenance data and share it so that people could... Because people, we imagine, will download large data sets. They'll have their own particular research question. They'll edit the data to fit their research question, and perhaps they want to contribute it back to the community so that other people could use that data set. So we're thinking about ways to not just establish data standards but promote them. Okay, so finally, our timeline. So this project is just now getting underway. So we're doing... We're kind of experimenting with data modeling and really waiting for Rob to start to kind of help us out. We've been conducting interviews with various researchers, both the kind of traditional provenance researchers and kind of the more computational art market type of researchers so that we can kind of build personas for both types of people. And then also playing around with the different tools we might use to build this. And that will probably go on through this summer and we'll try to start software development sometime in the fall or winter and start building up documentation about what actually is in the provenance index and start to model some research projects we can do with the new type of data. And then in about a year or so, we can start doing some testing on whatever prototype we have out, start doing some outreach. And then the big piece is actually changing the entire workflow of the provenance department because it's going to completely change the way these people work. Right now they're doing data entry on a record basis and now we're converting to these semantic triples. How does that change the way they think about their work? So that's going to be a big one. So we're expecting this to be about a three-year project and we hope to kind of give you updates here maybe once a year. I'm hoping. And that's it. Thank you.