Leaving aside issues with microfilmed material for the moment, I'd find such a collection of digital half-finished work extremely valuable. Why not set up a github repository and let everybody interested upload their material to a separate folder?
Best, Oliver On 05/11/2024 12:18, Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY wrote:
I'm sure others will jump in, but just as is also the case with outdated and subsequently difficult to access computer encodings, microfilm degrades and thereafter... scanning of such precious materials is an urgent desideratum. Jonathan On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 11:41 AM Rosane Rocher via INDOLOGY <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: __ This is a concern that keeps me awake at night, that and partially collated unpublished texts preserved in microfilms and photocopies of scattered and poorly known, hard to access manuscripts. Rosane Rocher Profesor Emerita of South Asia Studies University of Pennsylvania On 11/4/24 8:12 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY wrote:Excellent suggestion, Jan. Including me, lots of scholars have several unfinished projects which may never be completed or published, but lie in an incomplete form. There should be a repository for such materials. Madhav Madhav M. Deshpande Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 3:58 PM Jan Kučera <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear all, I am sure I am not alone with the experience of finding treasures in archives, in personal papers and other collections of various people from the past, often pioneers in the field. Some of us even had the sad privilege to take over libraries and collections of our departed colleagues and teachers. And from my experience, there is one significant difference from the past: people don’t write on paper anymore. The work is increasingly done on computers, and this data is almost never available or accessible to anyone else. I would like to make an appeal to everyone who feels like they have significant notes, drafts, or work-to-come they have spent decades on, if you don’t want these to suddenly disappear, please make provisions for someone to be able to pick it up or turn into a treasure to be found by future generations. Thank you and best regards, Jan _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology <https:// urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/ listinfo/indology__;!!IBzWLUs!UxkDwqvHuxM8pHMZzuIjS2FdP3U-- M_ZXhmkDi1Yznkq_9BLrbmLMueN9D10UQvLzwgDcTGWdrsylrHlDlbK5hn5nh3pBQ$> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/ listinfo/indology__;!!IBzWLUs!UxkDwqvHuxM8pHMZzuIjS2FdP3U-- M_ZXhmkDi1Yznkq_9BLrbmLMueN9D10UQvLzwgDcTGWdrsylrHlDlbK5hn5nh3pBQ$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!IBzWLUs!UxkDwqvHuxM8pHMZzuIjS2FdP3U--M_ZXhmkDi1Yznkq_9BLrbmLMueN9D10UQvLzwgDcTGWdrsylrHlDlbK5hn5nh3pBQ$>_______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology <https:// list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology> -- Prof. dr. J.A. Silk Leiden University Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Herta Mohr building 2.142 Witte Singel 27A 2311 BG Leiden The Netherlands website: www.OpenPhilology.eu <http://www.OpenPhilology.eu> copies of my publications may be found at https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk <https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/ JASilk> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
_______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
