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As of late 2022, the many graphics and figures that Wittgenstein had included in the 20.000 pages he wrote were rendered by the transcriptions in two main alternative ways: | As of late 2022, the many graphics and figures that Wittgenstein had included in the 20.000 pages he wrote were rendered by the transcriptions in two main alternative ways: | ||
* Some had been encoded using a combination of [[wikipedia:Unicode|Unicode]] characters and XML markup that the IDP parsing engine renders as HTML; | * Some had been encoded using a combination of [[wikipedia:Unicode|Unicode]] characters (such as letters, numbers, dashes, arrows...) and XML markup that the IDP parsing engine renders as HTML; | ||
* Others (generally speaking, those that were visually more complex) had been redrawn, as had previously been done by publishers with the drawings included in Wittgenstein's writings that had appeared in print. | * Others (generally speaking, those that were visually more complex) had been redrawn, as had previously been done by publishers with the drawings included in Wittgenstein's writings that had appeared in print. | ||
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With funding from the WAB, the project lasted from October 2022 to April 2024 and resulted in the recreation of [[Statistics|approximately 1000 image files]] which were embedded in the transcriptions (and thus incorporated in the public sites) as they became available. 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 Falch, and Daphne Bielefeld. | With funding from the WAB, the project lasted from October 2022 to April 2024 and resulted in the recreation of [[Statistics|approximately 1000 image files]] which were embedded in the transcriptions (and thus incorporated in the public sites) as they became available. 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 Falch, and Daphne Bielefeld. | ||
After the completion of the redrawing phase, it started to seem desirable that the image files should also become available – ''i.e.'', browsable and searchable – 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 indexing the visuals that had been rendered in the WAB's transcriptions by the abovementioned combination of Unicode characters and XML tags. These are currently represented by grey placeholders that merely serve the purpose of being the bearers of the semantic tags (more on this topic in the "User guide" below). It is our hope that in the future, with the evolution and continuous improvement of the transcriptions, it will become possible to also include their visual appearance in this website. | |||
== Scope and purpose == | == Scope and purpose == | ||
This website contains high-quality, "normalised", redrawn visuals that correspond to the hand-drawn graphics and figures from the manuscripts and typescripts in Ludwig Wittgenstein's ''Nachlass''. | This website contains high-quality, "normalised", redrawn visuals that correspond to the hand-drawn graphics and figures from the manuscripts and typescripts in Ludwig Wittgenstein's ''Nachlass''. The choice as to which graphics to recreate was based on which visual items of the originals had already been redrawn (as opposed as rendered as Unicode+XML) as of October 2022. | ||
These drawings are tagged with semantic descriptors that were imported from the WAB's transcriptions by parsing the XML files with a dedicated script. | |||
Additionally, it contains a placeholder for each item, encoded in the transcription as Unicode+XML, that was tagged as a "graphic" as opposed as a "" or "" (<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" inline>type="graphic"</syntaxhighlight>). | |||
== User guide == | |||
=== Naming conventions === | |||
=== File formats === | |||
=== Viewing online and downloading === | |||
== | === Semantic tags and searching === | ||
== Copyright == | |||
The drawings are licenced under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0]. This means that the image files can be freely downloaded without asking for permission or paying a fee and can be reused for any purpose, including commercial, provided that: | |||
* The authors are credited, if possible with the following format: | |||
* Any derivative works (''i.e.'', drawings based upon these drawings) are also licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. | |||
The rights to the semantic tags (''i.e.'', to the relationship between the image files and the descriptors) belong to the WAB. | |||
The copyright holders (The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Bergen, Bergen, in agreement with Oxford University Press) released the transcriptions of a subset of the manuscripts (Ts-201a1, Ts-201a2, Ms-139a, Ts-207, Ms-114, Ms-115, Ms-153a, Ms-153b, Ms-154, Ms-155, Ms-156a, Ms-148, Ms-149, Ms-150, Ts-212, Ts-213, p.39v of Ms-140, Ms-141, Ms-152, Ts-310) under [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0], meaning that the semantic tags are also available under the same licence; all rights to the transcriptions of the other manuscripts are reserved. | |||