I would say - this is important. Important enough to get direct aid, either governmental (US, France), or even from those with deep pockets (Google, Apple, Pau

I would say - this is important. Important enough to get direct aid, either governmental (US, France), or even from those with deep pockets (Google, Apple, Paul Allen, Gates Foundaton). Why are they still depending on crowdsourced funding? Dr. Diakite is in Oregon, maybe they can get Intel backing? In addition to securing the manuscripts, they deserve a home in a new climate-controlled institution to replace the one torched, once the situation stabilizes. These documents ought to be digitized and uploaded/mirrored to the cloud ASAP, so that the information content can no longer be destroyed.