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All three websites display their human-readable output by using dedicated software to index and parse the WAB's machine-readable transcriptions of Wittgenstein's manuscripts and typescripts. These transcriptions of the handwritten or typewritten material are encoded in the [[wikipedia:XML|XML]] format following the [[wikipedia:Text Encoding Initiative|TEI guidelines]]. While the transcriptions were originally published as part of the CD-based ''Bergen Electronic Edition'' (Oxford University Press 2000), the Wittgenstein Source, SFB, and IDP websites now allow anyone who has an Internet connection to easily browse them. | All three websites display their human-readable output by using dedicated software to index and parse the WAB's machine-readable transcriptions of Wittgenstein's manuscripts and typescripts. These transcriptions of the handwritten or typewritten material are encoded in the [[wikipedia:XML|XML]] format following the [[wikipedia:Text Encoding Initiative|TEI guidelines]]. While the transcriptions were originally published as part of the CD-based ''Bergen Electronic Edition'' (Oxford University Press 2000), the Wittgenstein Source, SFB, and IDP websites now allow anyone who has an Internet connection to easily browse them. | ||
The ''Nachlass'' contains approximately 3000 graphics | The ''Nachlass'' contains approximately 3000 graphics. Until 2022, these were represented in the Bergen ''Nachlass'' editions either as character transcriptions, facsimile snippets or redrawings stemming from different sources. In this task, the WAB had received invaluable help 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 | 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 redrawings or facsimile snippets, following a uniform style in "normalized" format. 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 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 J. Falch, and Daphne Bielefeld. The new drawings are already incorporated in the IDP and SFB resources. | ||
It soon 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. | It soon 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. | ||
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[[File:Unicode graphics placeholder.png|x110px|center|class=img-comfy]] | [[File:Unicode graphics placeholder.png|x110px|center|class=img-comfy]] | ||
<p class="image-caption">Current placeholder for graphics | <p class="image-caption">Current placeholder for graphics encoded in the transcriptions using XML markup and Unicode characters (for example, [[:File:115,150-a.png|115,150-a]]).</p> | ||
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<div class="side-by-side-image-container"> | <div class="side-by-side-image-container"> | ||
[[File:Example of the desired look of Unicode graphics.png|x110px|center|class=img-comfy]] | [[File:Example of the desired look of Unicode graphics.png|x110px|center|class=img-comfy]] | ||
<p class="image-caption">Desired look of a future implementation of graphics | <p class="image-caption">Desired look of a future implementation of graphics encoded in the transcriptions using XML markup and Unicode characters (example based on [http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/Ms-130,100_f Ms-115, page 150]).</p> | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
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== Scope and purpose == | == Scope and purpose == | ||
This website contains high-quality, "normalised", redrawn visuals that correspond to the hand-drawn – or, occasionally, typed – graphics | This website contains high-quality, "normalised", redrawn visuals that correspond to the hand-drawn – or, occasionally, typed – graphics from the manuscripts and typescripts in Ludwig Wittgenstein's ''Nachlass''. | ||
The visual items that were recreated are those that had already been included as facsimile snippets or redrawings (as opposed to encoded as XML and Unicode) by the WAB as of October 2022. In other words, the scope of the redrawn graphics has not changed since the early phase of the work to transcribe the ''Nachlass'', and the visuals that were initially encoded as XML and Unicode are still encoded in the same way. | The visual items that were recreated are those that had already been included as facsimile snippets or redrawings (as opposed to encoded as XML and Unicode) by the WAB as of October 2022. In other words, the scope of the redrawn graphics has not changed since the early phase of the work to transcribe the ''Nachlass'', and the visuals that were initially encoded as XML and Unicode are still encoded in the same way. | ||
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== User guide == | == User guide == | ||
=== Naming conventions === | === Naming conventions === | ||
The graphics | The graphics which are published on this website as images are named according to the following pattern: | ||
* The first three digits correspond to the manuscript or typescript number according to Von Wright's catalogue and are followed by a comma; in a few cases, the manuscript or typescript number may contain additional characters (progressive letters, as in the case of [[Ms-153a]] and [[Ms-153b]], or progressive letters and numbers, as in the case of [[Ts-201a1]] and [[Ts-201a2]]); | * The first three digits correspond to the manuscript or typescript number according to Von Wright's catalogue and are followed by a comma; in a few cases, the manuscript or typescript number may contain additional characters (progressive letters, as in the case of [[Ms-153a]] and [[Ms-153b]], or progressive letters and numbers, as in the case of [[Ts-201a1]] and [[Ts-201a2]]); | ||
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The files may be viewed: | The files may be viewed: | ||
* Through a gallery page that includes all images ([[All graphics | * Through a gallery page that includes all images ([[All graphics]]); | ||
* Through a gallery page for each manuscript or typescript ([[:Category:All manuscript pages|All manuscript pages]]); | * Through a gallery page for each manuscript or typescript ([[:Category:All manuscript pages|All manuscript pages]]); | ||
* Individually, through a description page that can be viewed by clicking on the name of a file in a gallery page or on the "More details" button which appears after clicking on an image in a gallery page. | * Individually, through a description page that can be viewed by clicking on the name of a file in a gallery page or on the "More details" button which appears after clicking on an image in a gallery page. | ||