I prepare each year an external harddisk and a letter of instruction
(for family members) before I leave to Asia. Sometimes the plane just
crashes.
Heiner
Am 05.11.2024 um 16:25 schrieb Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY:
My personal take on this: just as we should all have a 'legacy'
contact who knows what we want done with our social media profiles in
case of our death, so we also should have someone who knows how to
access our laptop, external hard drive, google drive or wherever we
are storing our work. It also helps to have a list of projects in
progress.
I've been given some of this information orally, but this discussion
has encouraged me to ask for more specific details and write
everything down. No one likes talking about their death; but I think
many will appreciate the thought that their work will keep its value.
Antonia
On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 13:07, Jan Kučera <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks everyone. While I would encourage people who are happy to
share their unfinished and/or abandoned work to do so (and if
there is a demand for shared GitHub repository, I am happy to set
that up and maintain), I think it is also perfectly understandable
if people are 1) not comfortable sharing work-in-progress during
their lifetime 2) have legal concerns to do so.
I just wanted to make sure that people realize that their work
might get lost in a way we are not used to. Make sure your
partner, colleague or an interested student know or will get to
know that such work exists in the first place, ideally whether you
would be happy if it was taken on by somebody else and ensure they
have a way to access it.
The narrow window in history when inheriting a computer gives you
access to the data is closing very fast as operating systems
encrypt more and more hard drives by default, and often families
do not think of sharing computers with whomever is taking over
your collections. Perhaps that is fine and what you want. But in
case you don't want you work to be _unexpectedly_ lost, tell
somebody today.
Best regards,
Jan
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Oliver Hellwig via INDOLOGY
Sent: úterý 5. listopadu 2024 11:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Papers vs files
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
>>
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