The future of my
Maritime History and Maritime Research web site
(January 2008)
I am terminally ill with motor neurone disease and permanently connected to a breathing machine. I have limited ability to write.
I am still adding partially complete subprojects to my site to make them available. I invite those able to do so to take them over and extend them on the condition that you accept others also doing so with the same material (ie: your personal copyright is limited to what you add).
A separate
project is taking over my
I have provided for my web site to remain online for six months after my death and for a group of friends to explore ways that my maritime research can survive.
This may include maintaining my web site under a new domain name, independently or as part of some maritime society or museum website and/or releasing it on CD-ROM.
My friends will also inherit my computer and be able to access my emails and therefore deal with any issues of the future of the site and of copyright (but not necessarily be able to answer specialised technical questions).
Currently my maritime site can be accessed through the NZ Ship and Marine Society site http://www.nzshipmarine.com/ - see “Maritime History and Maritime Research” among the web links on the “ABOUT” page. It is likely that if a new domain name is obtained that it would be linked to in the same way and from this location.
There is a separate link on http://www.nzshipmarine.com/ to my item on updating the index of NZ ships (incorporating the update and computerisation of “Watt’s Index”) that is found within my site as item A4a in the main maritime menu.
Jeremy Lowe
j_lowe@ihug.co.nz
jloweresearch@ihug.co.nz
30 January 2008