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The ''Nachlass'' contains approximately 3000 graphics. Until 2022, these were represented in the Bergen ''Nachlass'' editions as character transcriptions, facsimile snippets or remade drawings stemming from different sources. The WAB had received invaluable help with the task of handling the ''Nachlass'' graphics from its transcribers and editors as well as from Michael R. Biggs and, since 2014, Hans Biesenbach. | The ''Nachlass'' contains approximately 3000 graphics. Until 2022, these were represented in the Bergen ''Nachlass'' editions as character transcriptions, facsimile snippets or remade drawings stemming from different sources. The WAB had received invaluable help with the task of handling the ''Nachlass'' graphics from its transcribers and editors as well as from Michael R. Biggs and, since 2014, Hans Biesenbach. | ||
In 2022, on the initiative of Alois Pichler, director of the WAB, the WAB and Michele Lavazza, coordinator of the [https://wittgensteinproject.org/ Ludwig Wittgenstein Project], started a cooperation intended to redraw all graphics which at that point in time were represented by remade drawings | In 2022, on the initiative of Alois Pichler, director of the WAB, the WAB and Michele Lavazza, coordinator of the [https://wittgensteinproject.org/ Ludwig Wittgenstein Project], started a cooperation intended to redraw all graphics which at that point in time were represented by facsimile snippets or remade drawings, following a uniform style and format in an effort to "normalise" them. With funding from the WAB, the project lasted from October 2022 to April 2024 and resulted in the recreation of [[Project:Statistics|approximately 1000 image files]] which were subsequently embedded in the transcriptions. The new drawings were thus incorporated in the IDP and SFB resources. | ||
The drawings were made by Michele Lavazza and graphic designer Sara Lavazza under the supervision and coordination of Alois Pichler. Precious help and consultancy was provided by Michael Biggs, Rune J. Falch, and Daphne Bielefeld. | The drawings were made by Michele Lavazza and graphic designer Sara Lavazza under the supervision and coordination of Alois Pichler. Precious help and consultancy was provided by Michael Biggs, Rune J. Falch, and Daphne Bielefeld. | ||
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It soon started to seem desirable that the image files should also become available – ''i.e.'', browsable, searchable, and downloadable – in and of themselves, and not only as an integral part of the manuscripts. Thus, Michele Lavazza built this website ([[Main Page|{{SITENAME}}]]) to host the files and used data from the WAB's XML transcriptions, combined with a database-like infrastructure powered by [https://semantic-mediawiki.org Semantic MediaWiki], to make it possible to search and filter them by description tags as well as by manuscript number. In this task, he received help from Frederic Kettelhoit and continued working in cooperation with Alois Pichler. | It soon started to seem desirable that the image files should also become available – ''i.e.'', browsable, searchable, and downloadable – in and of themselves, and not only as an integral part of the manuscripts. Thus, Michele Lavazza built this website ([[Main Page|{{SITENAME}}]]) to host the files and used data from the WAB's XML transcriptions, combined with a database-like infrastructure powered by [https://semantic-mediawiki.org Semantic MediaWiki], to make it possible to search and filter them by description tags as well as by manuscript number. In this task, he received help from Frederic Kettelhoit and continued working in cooperation with Alois Pichler. | ||
Finally, at this stage, it became clear that an added value would be provided by the fact of also offering the graphics that had been encoded in the WAB's transcriptions by the abovementioned combination of XML markup and Unicode characters – and their semantic tags. These were not redrawn: rather, the HTML and CSS code derived from the XML source | Finally, at this stage, it became clear that an added value would be provided by the fact of also offering the graphics that had been encoded in the WAB's transcriptions by the abovementioned combination of XML markup and Unicode characters – and their semantic tags. These were not redrawn: rather, the HTML and CSS code derived from the XML source through the WAB parser was converted to an image format using the [https://pypi.org/project/html2image/ html2image] Python library. The images thus created were given a grey background to make them easy to distinguish at a glance. | ||
As a terminological convention, the word "figure" is used to refer to the graphics which can be encoded in XML using Unicode | == Terminology == | ||
As a terminological convention, the word "figure" is used to refer to the graphics which can be encoded in the XML format using Unicode characters and rendered visually using HTML and CSS (<code>rend="literal"</code> in the WAB's XML transcriptions); the word "drawing" is used to refer to the graphics which cannot, and thus have to be rendered as images (<code>rend="bitmap"</code> in the WAB's XML transcriptions). | |||
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