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History

As most Wittgenstein scholars and aficionados are well aware, the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen maintain a rich collection of online resources related to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Nachlass.

In particular, since 2016, the WAB's "Interactive Dynamic Presentation" (IDP) website makes it possible for readers and researchers across the globe to access the WAB's transcriptions of Wittgenstein's manuscripts and typescripts. While the transcriptions, based upon the handwritten or typed material and encoded as XML accorgin to the TEI guidelines, were originally published as part of the CD-based Bergen Electronic Edition, the IDP allows anyone who has an Internet connection to display the text of Wittgenstein's writings while dynamically selecting what information display.

As of late 2022, the many graphics and figures that Wittgenstein had included in the thousands of pages he wrote were rendered by the transcriptions in two main alternative ways:

• Some had been encoded using a combination of Unicode characters 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.

This website is the result of an organic cooperation between the WAB and the LWP.

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.