[INDOLOGY] Abbreviations in NGMCP catalogue entries.

[Roland Steiner]

Christoph Rauch has asked me to pass on the following response:

* * *

Yes, we are in the process of generating third-party funding for 4,000  
films and are also planning to digitise them in-house on a larger scale.

Priority is being given to digitising films with acetate-based  
material. So far, there has been no loss of information on the films,  
but of course this threat exists.


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Christoph Rauch
Leiter der Orientabteilung
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz -
Potsdamer Str. 33
D-10785 Berlin
Tel +49-(0)30-266 43 5800

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----- Nachricht von Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com> ---------
   Datum: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:36:32 -0500
     Von: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
Betreff: Re: [INDOLOGY] Abbreviations in NGMCP catalogue entries.
      An: Roland Steiner <steiner at staff.uni-marburg.de>
      Cc: indology at list.indology.info


> Christoph Rauch wrote to Roland Steiner:
>
>> . . .A total of more
>> than 2,000 films have already been digitised. Funding has been secured
>> for the digitisation of a further 3,000 films. Our service provider
>> has just picked up 1,000 films today. We are also working intensively
>> on the question of how to ensure long-term preservation of the digital
>> copies as well as access to the materials for research purposes . . .
>>
>
> If I'm understanding correctly an earlier posting of Roland Steiner
> that:the NGMCP had photographed 9,136 microfilms, does that mean about
> 1/4  of the total  (1000 films) have already been digitized and funding has
> been secured for the digitizing of another 1/3 of the total  (3000 films),
> leaving a little less than a half of the total (4000 films) than needs
> funding to be digitized?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier


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