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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.

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.

# Some had been encoded using a combination of [[wikipedia:Unicode|Unicode]] characters (such as letters, numbers, dashes, arrows...) and XML markup that the 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.

The visual items that were recreated are those that had already been redrawn (as opposed to encodeed 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.

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" item (<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" inline="">subtype="graphic"</syntaxhighlight>).

Both types of visual items (redrawn graphics that are available as images and placeholders for graphics that are encoded in the transcriptions as XML and Unicode) are tagged with semantic descriptors which make it possible to search them and filter them based on their content.

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 allowing users to look up keywords that will produce a set of results that includes both the drawings and the placeholders for figures.