Project:About: Difference between revisions

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 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.

Finally, at this stage, it became clear that an added value would be provided by the fact of also offering the visuals that had been encoded in the WAB's transcriptions by the abovementioned combination of XML tags and Unicode characters – and their semantic tags. These visuals are currently represented by grey placeholders that merely serve the purpose of bearing the semantic tags (more on this topic in the ''[[#User guide|User guide]]'' section 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.

[[File:Unicode graphics placeholder.png|x110px|center|class=img-comfy]]

<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>

<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>

For example, [[:File:108,89-c.png|108,89-c]] is the third visual item encoded in the transcription as XML and Unicode that occurs on page 89 of Ms-108; and even when only one occurs on a given page, the suffix "-a" is present to prevent situations where the numbering of this type of objects would conflict with that of the other type (for example, [[:File:108,25-a.png|108,25-a]] is the only visual item encoded as XML and Unicode that occurs on page 25 of Ms-108, while [[:File:108,25.png|108,25]] is the only visual item that was redrawn as an image on the same page).

The ''Structured semantic search'' section of the [[Main Page]] allows users to search for images that match one or more keywords for each of these properties. Please note that the search results will only include the visual items that match ''all'' keywords; if you wish to look up the images that match a keyword ''or'' another, please run two successive searches.