WAB - The Wittgenstein Archive

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The Wittgenstein Archives (WAB) were established in 1990 with the aim of producing a complete machine-readable version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass. This goal was achieved in 2000, and as a result of this work, WAB and Oxford University Press have published Wittgenstein's Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition (2000), which contains electronic facsimiles of the entire Nachlass, as well as texts in a normalized reading version and a diplomatic study version. The principal objectives of WAB in its current form include to maintain and develop further both the machine-readable version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass and the Bergen Electronic Edition, but also to manage its role as an important research infrastructure in the Humanities, bringing together philosophy, editorial philology and text technology. WAB has become a meeting place for scholars and students from many different research fields and geographical areas around the world. WAB engages in European research programmes and ran in the European Community's 5th Framework Programme a Transnational access to research infrastructures

programme (EU ARI WAB). WAB takes part in international projects of collaborative networking in the Humanities, with a strong focus on XML-based and TEI-guided text encoding.

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