HyperWittgenstein is a project and a collection of websites providing open access to a substantial and important part of Wittgenstein's Nachlass, with the objective to build a virtual scholarly community for collaborative Wittgenstein research and learning on the Internet. The project is carried out in cooperation with the
Groupement de Recherche Européen plus "Hyper-Learning" (
GDRE+ Hyper-Learning) and in the frames of the European COST action A32 "Open Scholarly Communities on the Web" (
COST Action A32) and the European eContent+ project "Digital Semantic Corpora for Virtual Research in Philosophy" project (
DISCOVERY). HyperWitggenstein includes
Wittgenstein Source.
The parts of the Wittgenstein Nachlass included in HyperWittgenstein comprise in total approximately 5000 pages; they include selections from
the Notes on Logic complex: TS 201a1, TS 201a2 (1913-14); the Lecture on Ethics complex: MS 139a, TS 207 (1929); the Big Typescript complex: MS 114, MS 115(first part),
MS 153a,
MS 153b,
MS 154,
MS 155,
MS 156a, MS 148, MS 149, MS 150, TS 212, TS 213 (1931-34); the
Brown Book complex: MS 115(second part), MS 140(p. 39v), MS 141, MS 152, TS 310 (1934-36). HyperWittgenstein is made possible through agreements with Trinity College, Cambridge, Oxford University Press, the University of Bergen and the libraries where these Nachlass parts are held.
HyperWittgenstein is characterized by the following four principles:
- Open access: HyperWittgenstein combines high quality, peer reviewed publishing with an efficient open access policy. Through the table below, users have free and immediate online access to work in progress versions of the Nachlass items included. Through Wittgenstein Source, users have free access to peer-reviewed publication versions of the same Nachlass items.
- Dynamic and interactive dynamic presentation of primary sources: Primary sources are made available in a range of editorial formats, incl. diplomatic and normalized formats ("dynamic presentation"), in addition to remaining open for user defined filtering ("Interactive dynamic presentation").
- Semantic enrichment: To allow for quick content screening of the Nachlass materials included and their correlation in terms of computational ontologies, the primary sources are tagged with semantic meta-information, both internally (in the transcriptions) and externally (stand-off markup through ontology editors such as Protege).
- Collaborative research and learning: HyperWittgenstein is built and developed collaboratively, with WAB as coordinator and the GDRE+ Hyper-Learning, COST Action A32 and DISCOVERY consortia as partners, but also including additional external partners as contributors and companions. It integrates collaborative research and learning on one site.
Through the table below, the Nachlass materials are made available as facsimile and edited text versions. The text presentations are produced from WAB's machine-readable version of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, which was prepared in the years 1990-1999, and stem thus from the same transcriptions as the
Bergen Electronic Edition (OUP 2000) is based upon. For HyperWittgenstein, the machine-readable version is migrated from MECS-WIT to XML-TEI(P5). As much as WAB's resources permit, the transcriptions are then proofread and, where mistakes are noted, corrected. In order to access pre-prepared edited text versions of the items included, use the table below (open with Mozilla Web browser). It is also possible to create additional, differing edited text versions by using the
Interactive dynamic presentation site.
In addition to Nachlass primary sources, HyperWittgenstein is intended to include secondary sources, such as commentaries, translations, articles, etc. While primary sources will be prepared by WAB, it is hoped that external users will contribute substantially with secondary sources.
Rights:
Facsimile: The electronic Nachlass Facsimile included originate from "Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition" (OUP 2000).
Reproduced by permission of the rights holders. The sale, further reproduction or use of this image for commercial purposes without prior permission from the copyright holders is prohibited.
Copyright holders: The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; Oxford University Press, Oxford; University of Bergen, Bergen; Uni Research AS (earlier Unifob AS), Bergen. Released under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike version 3 (CCPL BY-NC-SA).
- Facsimile of Ts-201a1 and Ts-201a2: The electronic Nachlass Facsimile included originate from "Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition" (OUP 2000). Copyright holders: The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Ontario; Oxford University Press, Oxford; University of Bergen, Bergen; Uni Research AS (earlier Unifob AS), Bergen. Released under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike version 3 (CCPL BY-NC-SA).
Text editions: The electronic text editions included originate from WAB's machine-readable version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass (1990-). Copyright holders: The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; Oxford University Press, Oxford; University of Bergen, Bergen; Uni Research AS (earlier Unifob AS), Bergen. Released under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike version 3 (CCPL BY-NC-SA).
Source transcriptions: The source transcriptions are part of WAB's machine-readable version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass (1990-). Copyright holders: University of Bergen, Bergen, and Uni Research AS (earlier Unifob AS), Bergen. Released under the Creative Commons General Public License Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike version 3 (CCPL BY-NC-SA).
Overview file with sigla and datings for all remarks ("Bemerkungen") in the above items.
For questions and comments write to
Alois Pichler.
Last change: 2011.5.13 by 
