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Projects

The following is a list of projects and activities with substantial participation of WAB staff or WAB resources:

  • Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition (BEE) (2000-). WAB maintains and improves the Bergen Electronic Edition towards a revised edition.

  • Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The machine-readable version (MV) (1990-). From 1990 to 1999, WAB produced a complete machine-readable version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass (MV). MV is continually revised and improved, both in content, markup and technical terms. Examples of MV source transcriptions are included on the Wittgenstein MS115 online site.

  • University of Bergen Wittgenstein Research Group (WFG) (2003-). In 2003 WAB initiated, in cooperation with the University of Bergen Philosophy Department, an interdisciplinary Wittgenstein Research Group at the University of Bergen ("Wittgensteinforskergruppe ved Universitetet i Bergen"). The group meets for discussions and seminars, cooperates on publications and joins efforts for research funding.

  • Working Papers from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (1991-). Since 1991, WAB has published the «Working Papers from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen» (ISSN 0803-3137). This series includes monographs, anthologies and proceedings, focusing on Wittgenstein's works and philosophy. It also includes work on text encoding and scholarly electronic publishing and reports on WAB's activities.

  • Tracing Wittgenstein: Digital Explorations (2002-). This project is an international research project exploring Wittgenstein's Nachlass while using and developing new tools for net-based scholarly collaboration. The project board includes Herbert Hrachovec (coordination, Vienna), Dieter Köhler (software, Karlsruhe) and Alois Pichler (primary sources, WAB). A first result can be downloaded from the site Wittgenstein MS115 in APE.

  • Using XML to generate research tools for Wittgenstein scholars by collaborative groupwork (2002-). This project is a cooperation between the Centre for Research in Electronic Art and Communication, University of Hertfordshire, Emeritus Fellow of Queen's College Oxford, Professor B.F. McGuinness, the Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv at the University of Innsbruck, and WAB. First outcomes include XML versions of part of Wittgenstein MS101, supplemented with XML controlled editorial interfaces offering the user self-defined text filtering.

  • Conferences and seminars (1991-). In December 2001, WAB, in cooperation with the HIT-Centre and the Philosophy Department, organized an international Wittgenstein conference in Bergen. A selection of conference audio files are being made available in streaming format. Proceedings from this conference will be published in WAB's Working Papers. In May 2002, WAB helped organize and participated in the Norwegian-French Wittgenstein seminar in Marifjora, Sognefjord, Norway.

  • Trans-national Access to European Research Infrastructure Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (EU ARI WAB) (2002-2004). From January 1st, 2002, to August 31st, 2004, WAB ran the FP5 funded EU ARI WAB project. Under this scheme, 32 research projects were carried out at WAB, accounting for a total of 1000 user days spent at WAB and making applied use of Wittgenstein research, philosophy, scholarly electronic publishing and text encoding.

  • Users' projects (1990-). WAB's resources are used in a number of externally defined projects. One example of this is use in the GABEK context (see Josef Zelger: Argumentationsstrukturen in Wittgenstein-Nachlass MS 115). Although externally defined, many of these projects are carried out on location at WAB. WAB has a long tradition of hosting projects that are defined externally, but carried out at WAB. Since 1990 WAB has received more than 300 research visits from international university faculty members and other researchers, including EU funded visits under the EU ARI WAB scheme. Several fields are represented among these projects such as mathematics, logics, information technology, psychology, semiotics, linguistics, editorial sciences, philosophy, theory of science and the social sciences. Several research theses have been written by visitors at WAB in Bergen. The WAB users projects site includes user project abstracts.

  • Wittgenstein Nachlass items on the world wide web (1996-). In 1996, WAB had produced, on the basis of its machine-readable version of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, Wittgenstein Nachlass items MS115 and TS201 for HTML-publication on the world wide web. These web-resources are widely accessed and studied in Wittgenstein research, as examples of scholarly online publishing, and in the more general context of humanities computing. In 2004, WAB added, in the framework of the Using XML to generate research tools for Wittgenstein scholars by collaborative groupwork project, to the resources made available online part of MS101. In the upcoming HyperWittgenstein project, web-publication of MS115 will again play a central role.

  • Wittgenstein Nachlass high quality Photo CD facsimile (2001-). WAB holds and maintains electronic high quality facsimile copies of the Nachlass on Photo CDs; their format is not identical with that used for the facsimile publication in BEE. Currently, WAB is engaged in storing and organizing the Photo CD facsimile files on a local server in order to better organize their preservation and access to them.

  • University of Bergen AKSIS (since 2009 "Uni Digital") Text Technology Group (TTG) (2003-). WAB is embedded in the AKSIS (since 2009 "Uni Digital") Text Technology Group and exchanges staff and material resources with other TTG projects.

  • HyperWittgenstein and Hyper-Learning (2003-). In the framework of the European research group GDRE+ Hyper-Learning, WAB participates in the project to create a model for an advanced research and learning infrastructure for the humanities. A particularly important goal of Hyper-Learning is the establishment of virtual collaborative learning communities based around representative European authors, among them Wittgenstein. WAB's particular responsibility is with the project HyperWittgenstein (2004-). The EU financed COST Action «Open Scholarly Communities on the Web» (Cost Action A32) is part of the Hyper-Learning initiative.

  • Wittgenstein portal (2000-). In 2000, WAB created a Wittgenstein portal with links to important Wittgenstein resources which is maintained and developed further.

  • Digital publishing and reading (2004-). WAB participates in the Norwegian-French AURORA project «Digital publishing and reading: Challenges and processes in critical editions and reading activities». The project is coordinated by Daniel Apollon from AKSIS (since 2009 "Uni Digital"), Bergen, and Claire Bélisle and Philipe Régnier from CNRS-ISH-LIRE, Lyon. The project focuses on digital media reading studies, text encoding, and the political economy of scholarly digital editions.

  • Nordic network for Wittgenstein research (NNW) (2006-). WAB and the Bergen Wittgenstein Research Group participate in the Nordic network for Wittgenstein research. The aim of the network is to create a research environment for Nordic research groups and individuals interested in Wittgenstein’s philosophy and approaches to different problems and areas in philosophy inspired by his thought. The aim is especially to strengthen and co-ordinate the research possibilities and research education of doctoral students and young scholars.

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