The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB)

The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) is a research infrastructure and project platform bringing together philosophy, editorial philology and text technology. It is 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.

WAB is probably best known for the publication of «Wittgenstein's Nachlass. The Bergen Electronic Edition» (BEE, Oxford University Press 2000). This edition contains all the manuscripts of Wittgenstein's Nachlass on six CDs in facsimiles and both normalized and diplomatic versions. The edition is equipped with a range of search and analysis functions.

Ongoing projects at WAB include the EU financed COST Action A32: Open Scholarly Communities on the Web (2006-2010) and DISCOVERY: Digital Semantic Corpora for Virtual Research in Philosophy (2006-2009), the FWF financed Culture and Value Revisited (2006-2008), and the NordForsk financed JNU VWAB: Joint Nordic Use of WAB Bergen and VWA Helsinki (2008-2010).

WAB publishes its own series, the Publications from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, which includes contributions from many internationally respected Wittgenstein scholars.

WAB has also created and runs an interactive news portal for Wittgenstein scholars, called Wittgenstein News. Here users can post information about activities, publications and research opportunities.

Last change: 2008.12.10 by ap