[INDOLOGY] NGMCP

[Harry Spier]

Dear list members,

Does anyone know if the Nepalese government has ever given a price for the
publishing rights to the whole collection.

Harry Spier


On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM Kengo Harimoto <kengo001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Dominik and members of the list,
>
> Some time ago, I was contacted by someone at the Berlin StaBi in charge of
> integrating NGMCP data to their https://www.qalamos.net/ project. Perhaps
> that is why the UHH link went off-line?
>
> Hopefully, it will come online soon.
>
> In the meantime, I have SQL dumps of the NGMCP title list and the
> catalogue wiki. I created them when the project ended as backups. I am
> ready to send them if anyone is interested. Since I am not sure to whom the
> data legally belong, please contact me privately.
>
> --
> Kengo Harimoto
>
> > On Jul 10, 2025, at 09:09, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> > 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) 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.  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
> >
> >
> > --
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> > University of Alberta
> >
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