[INDOLOGY] NGMCP

[Harry Spier]

Also it looks like this link will give you 2784 manuscripts , though it
doesn't look too easy to search.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ngmcp.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/mediawiki/index.php/*
Harry Spier


On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Dominik,
>
> 1) I was able to access some manuscripst by accessing  from archive.org's
> wayback machine from the catagories page but some/most  were not archived
> by archive.org. Try this  link .
> https://web.archive.org/web/20220306214603/http://ngmcp.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Categories
>
> 2)  At the bottom of the wiki main page it says :
> . In order to help us improve the catalogue further, we heavily rely on
> your help. Please get in touch with Iris Vogel (iris.vogel at uni-hamburg.de)
> from the gwin-Project (FDM
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20220318220846/http://www.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/gwin>)
> and we promise to keep you up to date.
>
> So perhaps Iris Vogel can help. But this page was last updated in 2018.
>
> Harry Spier
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> I tried to look up a manuscript in the NGMCP wiki (descriptive) database
>> just now, and hit a brick wall
>> <https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/ngmcp/ngmcp.html>.  While this
>> service wasn't ideal, it was very useful indeed.  But now it is apparently
>> suddenly gone.
>>
>> The page you get to suggests running a search of the type
>>
>> <search title> site:https://ngmcp.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/
>>
>> but I've tried that and it doesn't work well.  Items I know very well are
>> in the Wiki do not get returned. Many searches do not return any
>> information, when the old wiki interface definitely used to.
>>
>> This is awful, a serious retrograde step.
>>
>> Could someone put me in touch with whoever is in charge of the remnants
>> of the NGMCP project?  I would like to discuss some ideas for improving the
>> situation.  This is very important and I am willing to put some resources
>> into this effort if required.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
>> University of Alberta
>>
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