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Semantic faceted search and browsing (SFB) of the Wittgenstein Nachlass (2012-)

In cooperation with the University of Bergen Library Section for Digital Services (Hemed Al Ruwehy and Øyvind Liland Gjesdal)

With the site linked from below, WAB offers semantic faceted search and browsing of metadata from its records of the Wittgenstein Nachlass and other Wittgenstein resources, as well as metadata contributed by partners. A precursor of this site was built in cooperation with the University of Ancona (Christian Morbidoni, Semedia project) within the framework of the DM2E project. The site bases on WAB's ongoing work towards a comprehensive ontology for the Wittgenstein domain. For the overall conception of the ontology WAB has received support from Christian Morbidoni, received support from Christian Morbidoni, Federico Meschini and the European projects Discovery, Agora and DM2E as well as James M. Fielding (Univ. of Paris I) and Amélie Zöllner-Weber (author of "Figurenontologie"). Authors at WAB include Alois Pichler, Christian Erbacher, Rune Jensen Falch, Heinz Wilhelm Krüger and Deirdre Smith. For entering the metadata, WAB has received substantial help from Emilia Ciesnik, Agnieszka Dura and Anna Sobko (all three trainees in the University of Torun POWER program).

Provenance of metadata
  • Metadata for Nachlass ("Bemerkung"):
    • Bemerkung identifier a.o.: WAB 1990-.
    • Date: WAB 1990- under consultancy of editorial notes in editions of Wittgenstein's "works" and publications as well as communications by G.H. von Wright, L. Bazzocchi, H. Ben-Yami, M. Biggs, S. Edwards-McKie, F. Franken Figueiredo, A. Gibson and N. O'Mahony, G. Grasshoff / T. Lampert, St. Hilmy, P. Keicher, F. Kettelhoit, J. Klagge, H.W. Krüger, B. McGuinness, R. Monk, M. Nedo, A. Pichler, M. Pilch, M. Potter, R. Rhees, B. Rogers, M. Rosso, J. Rothhaupt, A. Schmidt, J. Schulte, J. Smith, D.G. Stern, N. Venturinha, R. Vinten, P.K. Westergaard, K. van Gennip. Please note that some of the dates are alleged only. Also note that for a number of items (e.g. Ms-104) competing dating proposals exist; for these cases we envisage that users will be enabled to sort and filter the texts in accordance with each single dating proposal separately.
    • Place (currently disabled): WAB 1990- under consultancy of publications by A. Pichler (1994), M. Pilch (2018). Please note that some of the place indications are alleged only.
    • Published in: Alois Pichler's catalogue in Michael A.R. Biggs and Alois Pichler (1993): Wittgenstein: Two Source Catalogues and a Bibliography. Catalogues of the Published Texts and of the Published Diagrams, each Related to its Sources.
    • Refers to work: WAB 1990-; Hans Biesenbach with contributions by J. Schulte, W. Kienzler (Wittgenstein's references to Frege), J. Rothhaupt, G. Citron, Chr. Copak, Chr. Erbacher, Chr. Milerferli, A. Pichler, E. von Savigny. Please note that some of the references are alleged only.
    • Refers to person: WAB 1990-; Hans Biesenbach with contributions by J. Schulte, W. Kienzler (Wittgenstein's references to Frege), J. Rothhaupt, G. Citron, Chr. Copak, Chr. Erbacher, Chr. Milerferli, A. Pichler, E. von Savigny; Innsbruck Gesamtbriefwechsel edition; publications by U. Prokop, I. Somavilla, A. Waugh. Please note that some of the references are alleged only.
    • Has variant: WAB 1990- (Bergen Electronic Edition, 2000; work by A. Pichler, 1990-; work by H.W. Krüger, 1994-); H. Biesenbach (Anspielungen und Zitate im Werk Ludwig Wittgensteins, 2014); A. Maury ("Sources of the remarks in Wittgenstein's Zettel", 1981; "Sources of the remarks in Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'", 1994); B. McGuinness and J. Schulte (Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Kritische Edition, 1989); J. Schulte a.o. (Philosophische Untersuchungen. Kritisch-genetische Edition, 2001); G.H. von Wright a.o. (Helsinki-Ausgabe , 1979-81); F. Kettelhoit (similarity search tool, 2019); C. Huitfeldt (similarity search tool, 2020-21).
    • Discusses (currently disabled): Mark Addis (Univ. of Aarhus and Birmingham City University), Steen Brock (Univ. of Aarhus), James Klagge (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Alois Pichler.
    • Nachlass dictionaries: (1) WiTTLex (lemmatized) (first version released 25.2.2022): WiTTLex - The WiTTFind Lexicon of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Nachlass, with Frequency Lists and Indication of the Words' Sources in the Nachlass was produced on the basis of an application of Franz Guenthner's CISLEX system to WAB's transcriptions of Wittgenstein's Nachlass in the WiTTFind project. (2) wittlex2 (tokenized) (first version implemented on SFB 21.2.2024): The wittlex2 (tokenized) Nachlass wordlist was produced by Filippo Mosca on the basis of an application of the spaCy tokenizer to WAB's transcriptions of Wittgenstein's Nachlass.
  • Metadata for Correspondence: Brenner Archives at the University of Innsbruck, eds. of Innsbruck Gesamtbriefwechsel edition (2011); kindly provided by Joseph Wang.
  • Metadata for Lecture notes: J. Klagge: "The Wittgenstein Lectures". In: Public and Private Occasions (eds. James C. Klagge and Alfred Nordmann); Lecture notes by G.E. Moore 1930-33 (2016, eds. D.G. Stern, B. Rogers, G. Citron); Lecture notes by Y. Smythies 1938-41 (2017, eds. V. Munz, B. Ritter); Lecture notes by K.J. Shah 1946-47 (1988, ed. P.T. Geach); Lecture notes by R. Rhees 1936, in: The Language of Sense Data and Private Experience (1984, ed. R. Rhees; 1993, ed. J. Klagge); Lecture notes by Y. Smythies, R. Rhees and J. Taylor, in: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief (1967, ed. C. Barrett); Lecture notes by R. Rand, in: Rand und Wittgenstein (2004, ed. M. Iven); Lecture notes by R.G. Bosanquet, N. Malcolm, R. Rhees and Y. Smythies, in: Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Cambridge 1939 (1976, ed. C. Diamond); the datings of the lectures are derived from the datings contained in the lecture notes typescript Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Foundations of Mathematics", Rose Rand Papers, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Identifier 31735061817957.
  • Metadata for Recollections: Malcolm, N.: Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1958); Redpath, Th.: Wittgenstein: A Student's Memoir (1990); Bouwsma, O.K.: Wittgenstein: Conversations 1949–1951 (1986); Rhees, R.: Postscript (1981, ed. R. Rhees); Wittgenstein, H.: My Brother Ludwig (1981, ed. R. Rhees); Drury, M. O'E.: Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein (1981, ed. R. Rhees); Drury, M. O'E.: Conversations with Wittgenstein (1981, ed. R. Rhees); Leavis, F.R.: Memories of Wittgenstein (1981, ed. R. Rhees); Pascal, F.: Wittgenstein: A Personal Memoir (1981, ed. R. Rhees); King, J.: Recollections of Wittgenstein (1981, ed. R. Rhees); Rhees, R.: Some Developments in Wittgenstein’s View of Ethics (1965); Wright, G:H.: The strongest impression any man ever made on me (1989, eds. P.A. Schilpp, L.E. Hahn); Ambrose, A.: Wittgenstein on Universals (1966); Waismann, F.: Notes on Talks with Wittgenstein (1965); MacIver, A.: Diary (2016, ed. B. McGuinness); Lecture notes by R. Rand, in: Rand und Wittgenstein (2004, ed. M. Iven).
  • Metadata for Sraffa diary entries: Moira De Iaco (University of Salento), on the basis of the digital copies of Sraffa's diaries released by Trinity College Library, Cambridge, on the SRAFFA site.


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