[INDOLOGY] Welcome to my Nightmare or the Digital Blackout of the IDP

[Lubomír Ondračka]

The British Library came under heavy cyber attack at the weekend and has 
not yet restored its services.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/british-library-still-reeling/

Let's hope that all this will be fixed soon and then the Dunhuang 
Database will be available again.

L.

On 01.11.2023 14:29, Dragomir Dimitrov via INDOLOGY wrote:
> Dear list members,
> 
> at the request of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hanneder I am sending you the following
> query. Any feedback and assistance would be most welcome. Thank you.
> 
> With best wishes,
> Dragomir Dimitrov
> 
> ************************************************************
> 
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> does anyone know of or have a download of items from the Dunhuang
> Database? I have no overview of the structure of the website, but I am
> looking for the Tibetan Chan manuscripts. There are scans of the mss. and a
> more hidden set of transcriptions. This would be a sample link:
> 
> idp.bl.uk/database/oo_cat.a4d?shortref=TibetanChanTransliterations_2014&ca
> tno=4
> 
> As far as I could ascertain, the WayBackMachine does not seem to solve the
> problem, unless perhaps one has noted down each and every single url.
> 
> I always wanted to avoid depending on digital sources only, but this time I
> became sloppy and thus, for a reading seminar, where we wanted to read
> Tibetan Chan texts (thanks to the great work of Sam van Shaik!), we are
> running out of material very soon. So if anyone has downloaded some items
> and is willing to send them to me, please contact me on my email address.
> 
> Such "cyber incidents" are frequent. A couple of years ago in Gießen
> University the whole network was out for a whole term; from matriculation to
> book orders in the library, everything had to be done with the ancient
> technology of paper manuscripts. It still worked  - the older participants may
> remember the times :)
> 
> Jürgen Hanneder, Marburg
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Prof. Dr. Juergen Hanneder
> Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
> FG Indologie u. Tibetologie
> Deutschhausstr.12
> 35032 Marburg
> Germany
> Tel. 0049-6421-28-24930
> hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de
> 
> 
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