[GRASS-PSC] Long time preservation of GRASS-related publications

[Margherita Di Leo]

For what it's worth, I'd point out the FigShare platform:
http://figshare.com/
It provides also a DOI, for easy citation of the works.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Yann Chemin <yann.chemin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good question Peter,
> A similar thing happens to most conferences in Asia,
> About 5 years of online life...
>
> Worrying for research in general...
> Yann
> On Jan 18, 2013 3:11 PM, Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear PSC,
>>
>> I just noticed that the Abstracts from the 2004 GRASS Users Conference in
>> Bangkok have disappeared from the net. Archived links like this one
>>
>>
>> ftp://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/grass/conferences/conf_bangkok2004.html
>>
>> have ceased to work.
>>
>> Is there (already) a save haven within the GRASS continuum were such
>> information can be preserved for further reference and study ? If this is
>> not the case, we should start thinking about it.
>>
>> FWIW, I'd glady provide an ISO of the proceedings CD of this particular
>> conference.
>>
>> I wonder if other long-time GRASS users have kept copies of the
>> Proceedings of even older conferences from the 19[8|9]0s ?
>>
>> Best,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Peter Löwe
>> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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