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In particular, since 2012, the WAB's [https://wab.uib.no/sfb/ "Semantic faceted search and browsing" (SFB) website] allows readers and researchers across the globe to search, filter and display individual remarks from the ''Nachlass'', or collections thereof, based upon their content or relevant metadata. Since 2016, the WAB's [https://wab.uib.no/transform/wab.php?modus=opsjoner "Interactive dynamic presentation" (IDP) website] makes it possible for users to view entire manuscripts or typescripts, in a linear or diplomatic style, while dynamically selecting which sets of information to display. | In particular, since 2012, the WAB's [https://wab.uib.no/sfb/ "Semantic faceted search and browsing" (SFB) website] allows readers and researchers across the globe to search, filter and display individual remarks from the ''Nachlass'', or collections thereof, based upon their content or relevant metadata. Since 2016, the WAB's [https://wab.uib.no/transform/wab.php?modus=opsjoner "Interactive dynamic presentation" (IDP) website] makes it possible for users to view entire manuscripts or typescripts, in a linear or diplomatic style, while dynamically selecting which sets of information to display. | ||
Both websites use dedicated software to index and parse the WAB's transcriptions of Wittgenstein's manuscripts and typescripts. These are based on the handwritten or typed material and are encoded | Both websites use dedicated software to index and parse the WAB's transcriptions of Wittgenstein's manuscripts and typescripts. These are based on the handwritten or typed material and are encoded in the [[wikipedia:XML|XML]] format according to the [[wikipedia:Text Encoding Initiative|TEI guidelines]]. While the transcriptions were originally published as part of the CD-based Bergen Electronic Edition in 2000, the SFB and IDP websites now allow anyone who has an Internet connection to easily browse them. | ||
As of late 2022, the many graphics and figures that Wittgenstein had included in the 20.000 pages he wrote were rendered by these transcriptions in one of two ways: | As of late 2022, the many graphics and figures that Wittgenstein had included in the 20.000 pages he wrote were rendered by these transcriptions in one of two ways: | ||
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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 | 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|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. | ||
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== 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 visual items that were recreated are those that had already been redrawn (as opposed to encodeed as XML and Unicode) 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 still are. | |||
Additionally, | These drawings are tagged with semantic descriptors that were imported from the WAB's transcriptions by parsing the XML files with a dedicated script. For example, the drawing in [http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/Ms-101,28r_f Ms-101, page 28], bears the following attribute in the XML transcription: | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">subtype="graphics_Abbild; Mensch(en)"</syntaxhighlight> | |||
and therefore has the following properties in this website: | |||
* [[Property:Has graphic type|Has graphic type]]: graphics | |||
* [[Property:Has graphic subtype|Has graphic subtype]]: Abbild | |||
* [[Property:Has subject|Has subject]]: Mensch(en) | |||
Additionally, this website contains a placeholder for each item, encoded in the transcription as XML and Unicode, that was tagged as a "graphic" as opposed as a "logic" or "maths" (<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" inline="">subtype="graphic"</syntaxhighlight>). | |||
These are also tagged with semantic descriptors which follow the same propery schema. | |||
The purpose of this website is to provide the general public as well as researchers and publishers with a set of normalised drawings and figures that can be browsed and freely reused (see the ''[[#Copyright|Copyright]]'' section below); moreover, it aims to make this corpus easier to navigate by making the drawings and the placeholders for figures searchable and filterable. | |||
== User guide == | == User guide == | ||