[INDOLOGY] Papers vs files
Rolf Heinrich Koch
rolfheiner.koch at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 15:41:06 UTC 2024
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 <jan.kucera at ujca.cz> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> On Behalf Of
> Oliver Hellwig via INDOLOGY
> Sent: úterý 5. listopadu 2024 11:25
> To: indology at list.indology.info
> 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
> > <indology at list.indology.info
> <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> 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 <jan.kucera at ujca.cz
> >> <mailto:jan.kucera at ujca.cz>> 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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