Construction of datahaceonworship and bolief and applied research of theories of Persian literature

研究活动主要包括对伊朗伊斯兰共和国的崇拜和信仰进行实地考察，建立实地考察资料数据库，以及对波斯文学理论进行应用研究。具体地说，研究是按照如下1到3的方式进行的。具有波斯语专业知识的助理人员被用于数据输入和简单的工作。在伊朗伊斯兰共和国的实地考察：首席调查员、调查人员和合作科学家利用每一财政年度的赠款援助，收集了关于古代遗址的照片资料、关于“索瓦”仪式（一种妇女的民间信仰）的录像资料和关于伊朗伊斯兰共和国民间故事、传说和民间信仰的声音资料。数据库建设：该工作主要作为项目的重中之重。迄今为止，本计划或其他计划所收集的有关伊朗崇拜和信仰的资料，都被格式化成XML格式。数据分为三大类（古代遗址、“软eh”仪式和民间故事），并分为子类数据、事件数据和实物数据。该数据库大部分采用XML编写，并配备了检索系统。应用研究：首席调查员从语言历史的角度进行研究，包括编辑波斯语词源学词典。其他调查人员和合作科学家也从他们专业的角度进行研究。

Fieldwork on worship and belief in Islamic Republic of Iran, works to construct a database about material gathered by fieldwork and applied research of theories of Persian literature were mainly done as activities of this research. Concretely, the study was made in the way written as below, from 1 to 3. Assitant staffs who have an expert knowledge on Persian language were utilized in Data input and simple work.1. Fieldwork in Islamic Republic of Iran: The head investigator, investigators and cooperating scientists gathered photo materials on ancient ruins, video materials on "sofreh" ritual that is a women's folk belief and sound materials on folktales, legends and folk beliefs in Islamic Republic of Iran by using this grant aid in each fiscal year.2. Construction of database: This work was done mainly as the most important part of this project. Material on Iranian worship and belief which was gathered by this project or other project so far was formatted into XML. The data was categorized into three groups (ancient ruins, "soft-eh" ritual and folktales) and divided into sub-category data, event data and material data. The most part of this database was made by XML and the search systemwas, equipped too.3. Applied research: The head investigator researched from a point of view of lingual history based on this research including editing a Persian etymological dictionary. Other investigators and cooperating scientists researched from points of view of their specialty, too.